Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 37
Cheng-Si, once alone, reflected upon what had happened to her.
What happens: reflect, happen · To what, where: Cheng
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: 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 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheng | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cheng | punct |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 alone | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Cheng | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reflected | punct |
| 8 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Cheng | acl:relcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 12 happened | mark |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | aux |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 reflected | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happened | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cheng | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | participle | Cheng not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | Cheng | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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