Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 35
When she arrived within a few paces of him she stopped as if frightened and seemed about to draw back.
Who acts: One · What happens: arrive, stop, frighten, seem, draw back
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 (One), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 paces | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 paces | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paces | amod |
| 7 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 paces | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 frightened | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 frightened | mark |
| 14 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seemed | cc |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightened | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 draw | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 draw | mark |
| 19 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 draw | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | One | within a few paces of cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | One | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | frighten a condition, not said to happen | participle | One not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | One not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | draw back | to-infinitive | One not said here | about property | 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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