Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 127
She turned in this direction and saw two small polished stone flasks which shone in the sunlight.
Who acts: One, two small polished stone flasks · What happens: turn, see, polish, shine · To what, where: direction, two small polished stone flasks, sunlight
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, two small polished stone flasks), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 direction | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 direction | det |
| 5 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 flasks | nummod |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flasks | amod |
| 10 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flasks | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flasks | compound |
| 12 | flasks | flask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shone | nsubj |
| 14 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flasks | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sunlight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunlight | det |
| 17 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shone | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | One | this direction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | One not said here | two small polished stone flasks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | shine | past | two small polished stone flasks | the sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |
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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