Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 98
At each end of the table burned an immense candle, the flames from which flickered to and fro in the breeze.
Who acts: flames · What happens: burn, flicker, fro · To what, where: immense candle, end, breeze
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 (flames), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 candle | det |
| 9 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 candle | amod |
| 10 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flames | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flames | det |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 candle | appos |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 flickered | nsubj |
| 16 | flickered | flicker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flames | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 flickered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fro | cc |
| 19 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 flickered | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 breeze | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 breeze | det |
| 22 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fro | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | a immense candle | at each end of the table | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flicker | past | the flames | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | the flames not said here | the breeze | 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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