Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 161
“Who in the world can that be?” queried the Prince.
What happens: be, query · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 be | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Who | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 be | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 queried | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 11 | queried | query | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 queried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 queried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can in a quote | can | Who in the world nsubj; that nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | query | past | the Prince | tree rules |
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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