Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 139
Startled by the warning, the young girl softly opened the door where she saw the servant with drawn sabre.
Who acts: young girl, girl · What happens: startle, open, see, draw · To what, where: door, servant
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl, girl), 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 | Startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 opened | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 warning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warning | det |
| 4 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Startled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Startled | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 opened | advmod |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 door | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 servant | det |
| 17 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sabre | case |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sabre | amod |
| 20 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 servant | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | participle | the young girl not said here | by the warning | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the young girl | the door | softly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | girl | the servant | with drawn sabre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer servant=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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