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title: He lost no time in telling the Mandarin, who was thunderstruck with… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He lost no time in telling the Mandarin, who was thunderstruck with amazement and who could scarcely suppress his joy at hearing the news. Who acts: innkeeper. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 45

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He lost no time in telling the Mandarin, who was thunderstruck with amazement and who could scarcely suppress his joy at hearing the news.

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**Who acts:** innkeeper · **What happens:** lose, tell, thunderstruck, suppress, hear, joy · **To what, where:** Mandarin, joy, news · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (innkeeper), 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:pg78208:10:45
# text = He lost no time in telling the Mandarin, who was thunderstruck with amazement and who could scarcely suppress his joy at hearing the news.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	thunderstruck	thunderstruck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	suppress	suppress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | innkeeper |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | innkeeper *not said here* |  | the Mandarin |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mandarin=Recipient |
| 3 | **thunderstruck** | past · passive |  | the Mandarin |  |  |  | with amazement | tree rules |
| 4 | **suppress** | could |  | innkeeper's joy |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; scarcely *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
| 5 | **hear** | gerund |  | the news |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
| 6 | **joy** |  | innkeeper |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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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