Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 145
After a few minutes rest, Cheng-Si picked her way carefully through the briars and brambles covering the trunk of the tree and began to stroll about the garden.
Who acts: few minutes, Cheng, brambles · What happens: rest, pick, cover, begin, stroll · To what, where: way, briars, trunk
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 (few minutes, Cheng, brambles), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 rest | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rest | nsubj |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 picked | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rest | punct |
| 7 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 picked | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Si | punct |
| 9 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cheng | flat |
| 10 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picked | obj |
| 13 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 picked | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 briars | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 briars | det |
| 16 | briars | briar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 picked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brambles | cc |
| 18 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 briars | conj |
| 19 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 brambles | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trunk | det |
| 21 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 covering | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trunk | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 picked | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 stroll | mark |
| 28 | stroll | stroll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 garden | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stroll | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | a few minutes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick | past | Cheng | other's way | the briars and brambles | carefully property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||
| 3 | cover | gerund | brambles not said here | the trunk of the tree | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Destination | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Cheng not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | stroll | to-infinitive | Cheng not said here | about the garden | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about garden=Trajectory |
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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