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title: Their anxiety grew and soon merged into real fear. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Their anxiety grew and soon merged into real fear. Who acts: anxiety. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 71

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Their anxiety grew and soon merged into real fear.

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**Who acts:** anxiety · **What happens:** grow, merge

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anxiety), 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:pg78208:5:73
# text = Their anxiety grew and soon merged into real fear.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	merged	merge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | things's anxiety |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **merge** | participle | things's anxiety *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into real fear; soon *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into fear=Co-Patient |

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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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