Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 97
The young Prince took Cheng-Si’s delicate little hand in his and murmured,
Who acts: young Prince · What happens: take, murmur · To what, where: delicate little hand
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Si | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cheng | punct |
| 7 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Si | case |
| 9 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 murmured | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 murmured | nmod:poss |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 murmured | cc |
| 15 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the young Prince | Cheng Si's delicate little hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the young Prince not said here | Prince nmod:poss | vn 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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