Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 50
“How happy I am to take my repast in your company,” said the young Prince.
Who acts: young Prince · What happens: be, take, say · To what, where: repast, company · 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 (young Prince), 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 | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 happy | advmod |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 am | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happy | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 am | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 repast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 company | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 company | nmod:poss |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Prince | amod |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | my repast | your company | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent repast=Value in company=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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