Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 152
Scarcely had he left than the young lady ran to her husband and cried: “Up at once or you are lost.
Who acts: Scarcely, young lady · What happens: have, leave, run, cry, lose · To what, where: you · 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 (Scarcely, young lady), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 ran | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Up | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Up | punct |
| 17 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 14 cried | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 Up | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 lost | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cried | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | Scarcely | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | the young lady | to lady's husband result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the young lady not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lose in a quote | present · passive | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/7/152/