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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 160

When he came within hailing distance he called politely: “Why are you quarreling in this way when Spring-time is smiling upon you so sweetly?”

Who acts: Prince, you, Spring time · What happens: come, hail, call, quarrel, smile · To what, where: distance, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, you, Spring time), 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

advmodnsubjmarkadvclobjnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctpunctadvmodauxnsubjadvclcasedetobladvmodcompoundpunctnsubjauxadvclcaseobladvmodadvmodpunctpunctrootWhenADVhePRONcameVERBwithinADPhailingVERBdistanceNOUNhePRONcalledVERBpolitelyADV:PUNCT“PUNCTWhyADVareAUXyouPRONquarrelingVERBinADPthisDETwayNOUNwhenADVSpringPROPN-PUNCTtimeNOUNisAUXsmilingVERBuponADPyouPRONsoADVsweetlyADV?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 cameadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4withinwithinADP_5 hailingmark
5hailinghailVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 cameadvcl
6distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing5 hailingobj
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 callednsubj
8calledcallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 distanceacl:relcl
9politelypolitelyADV_8 calledadvmod
10::PUNCT_15 quarrelingpunct
11“"PUNCT_15 quarrelingpunct
12WhywhyADVPronType=Int15 quarrelingadvmod
13arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 quarrelingaux
14youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs15 quarrelingnsubj
15quarrelingquarrelVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 cameadvcl
16ininADP_18 waycase
17thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem18 waydet
18waywayNOUNNumber=Sing15 quarrelingobl
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int24 smilingadvmod
20SpringSpringPROPNNumber=Sing22 timecompound
21--PUNCT_20 Springpunct
22timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing24 smilingnsubj
23isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 smilingaux
24smilingsmileVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 quarrelingadvcl
25uponuponADP_26 youcase
26youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs24 smilingobl
27sosoADV_28 sweetlyadvmod
28sweetlysweetlyADV_24 smilingadvmod
29??PUNCT_15 quarrelingpunct
30”"PUNCT_15 quarrelingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastPrincevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2hailgerundPrince not said heredistancevn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme
3call speech: askpastPrincedistance not said herepolitely propertyvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent distance=Recipient
4quarrel in a quotepresent · progressiveyouthis wayvn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5smile in a quotepresent · progressiveSpring timeupon you; sweetly propertyvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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