Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 15
“This is a comparison that applies to me closely,” thought the young girl.
Who acts: This, comparison, young girl · What happens: be, apply, think · To what, where: comparison, young girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, comparison, young 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 comparison | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 comparison | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 comparison | det |
| 5 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 applies | nsubj |
| 7 | applies | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 comparison | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 applies | obl |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 7 applies | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 applies | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 applies | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a comparison | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | apply in a quote | present | a comparison | the young girl = girl | closely property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the young girl | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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