Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 3
But instead of going to meet him, she turned and rushed into the house like a frightened kitten.
Who acts: she · What happens: go, meet, turn, rush · To what, where: San, house
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 (she), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 going | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 turned | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 meet | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rushed | cc |
| 12 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushed | obl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 kitten | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kitten | det |
| 18 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kitten | amod |
| 19 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | she not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | she not said here | San | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | she | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rush | past | she not said here | into the house like a frightened kitten result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result |
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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