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title: When you see an apple that looks attractive but contains a worm, you… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When you see an apple that looks attractive but contains a worm, you may contemplate its beauty but you keep your mouth away. Who acts: you, apple. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 102

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When you see an apple that looks attractive but contains a worm, you may contemplate its beauty but you keep your mouth away.

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**Who acts:** you, apple · **What happens:** see, look, contain, contemplate, keep away · **To what, where:** apple, worm, beauty, mouth

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, apple), 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:pg78208:12:104
# text = When you see an apple that looks attractive but contains a worm, you may contemplate its beauty but you keep your mouth away.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	contemplate	contemplate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | a apple |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | a apple |  |  |  |  | attractive *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **contain** | present | a apple *not said here* | a worm |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot worm=Theme |
| 4 | **contemplate** | may | you | worm's beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep away** | present | you | your mouth |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |

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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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