Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 78
Everything out-of-doors on the contrary seemed to be dancing in a delightful frolic of love.
Who acts: Everything, love · What happens: seem, dance, frolic · To what, where: delightful frolic
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 (Everything, love), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 doors | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 out | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 doors | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 6 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Everything | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 contrary | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 contrary | det |
| 9 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doors | nmod |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dancing | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dancing | aux |
| 13 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 frolic | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 frolic | det |
| 16 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 frolic | amod |
| 17 | frolic | frolic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dancing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frolic | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Everything out doors on the contrary | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | dance | to-infinitive · progressive | Everything out doors on the contrary not said here | a delightful frolic of love | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frolic=Location | ||||
| 3 | frolic | love | nom frolic «act intransitive»: of=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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