Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 9
The young girl ran to pick it up, hurried with it to her room, where she read the neat characters:
Who acts: young girl, girl · What happens: run, pick up, hurry, read · To what, where: letter, room, neat characters
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pick | mark |
| 6 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pick | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pick | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurried | punct |
| 10 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hurried | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 room | nmod:poss |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 read | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 read | nsubj |
| 19 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 room | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 characters | det |
| 21 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 characters | amod |
| 22 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 read | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the young girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | the young girl not said here | letter | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hurry | participle | the young girl not said here | girl's room | with letter | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 4 | read | past | girl | the neat characters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Topic |
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/pg78208/7/9/