Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 8
She wrapped the little fellow as well as she could, tearing bandages from her own clothes.
Who acts: Yeng · What happens: wrap, tear · To what, where: little fellow, bandages
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yeng), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrapped | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 wrapped | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 well | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tearing | punct |
| 12 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wrapped | advcl |
| 13 | bandages | bandage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tearing | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clothes | amod |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 tearing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | Yeng | the little fellow | well property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fellow=Destination | |||
| 2 | tear | gerund | Yeng not said here | bandages | from Yeng's own clothes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bandage=Patient from clothes=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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