Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 129
The young girl had had so many adventures in so short a time that this strange coincidence did not cause her any surprise.
Who acts: young girl, strange coincidence · What happens: have, not cause · To what, where: many adventures, girl
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 (young girl, strange coincidence), 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 | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adventures | amod |
| 8 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 short | advmod |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 cause | mark |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 coincidence | det |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coincidence | amod |
| 17 | coincidence | coincidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cause | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 cause | advmod |
| 20 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cause | obj |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 surprise | det |
| 23 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the young girl | many adventures | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient | |||
| 2 | not cause | past · do-support | this strange coincidence | girl | any surprise obj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer she=Theme surprise=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.
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