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title: She turned a candid look toward the walker, giving the young man a s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She turned a candid look toward the walker, giving the young man a subtle thrill of pleasure. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 114

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She turned a candid look toward the walker, giving the young man a subtle thrill of pleasure.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** turn, give, thrill · **To what, where:** candid look, walker, subtle thrill, young man, pleasure

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg78208:6:116
# text = She turned a candid look toward the walker, giving the young man a subtle thrill of pleasure.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	candid	candid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walker	walker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	subtle	subtle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thrill	thrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | girl | a candid look |  | the walker |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent look=Theme toward walker=Trajectory |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | girl *not said here* | a subtle thrill of pleasure | the young man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient thrill=Theme |
| 3 | **thrill** |  |  | pleasure |  |  |  |  | nom thrill «feeling transitive»: of=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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