--- title: “Excuse me, father,” she added, “it is time for me to go to work.” — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: “Excuse me, father,” she added, “it is time for me to go to work.” Who acts: fortune, news. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/4/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/4/) / 66 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 66 “Excuse me, father,” she added, “it is time for me to go to work.” **Who acts:** fortune, news · **What happens:** excuse, add, be, go · **To what, where:** fortune, time, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, news), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:4:67 # text = “Excuse me, father,” she added, “it is time for me to go to work.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | fortune | | | | father *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | fortune | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | news | time | | | | for fortune | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | fortune *not said here* | | | work | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/4/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/4/67/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/4/)