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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 126

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She walked and walked, but to her great despair she met no one, nor could she find the slightest shelter wherein she might escape the dampness.

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**Who acts:** fog · **What happens:** walk, meet, find, escape, despair · **To what, where:** one, slightest shelter, dampness

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:10:128
# text = She walked and walked, but to her great despair she met no one, nor could she find the slightest shelter wherein she might escape the dampness.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dampness	dampness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | fog |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past | fog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past | fog | no one |  |  |  | to fog's great despair | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **find** | could | fog | the slightest shelter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic |
| 5 | **escape** | might | fog | the dampness |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dampness=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **despair** |  | fog |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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