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title: Her hair, which fell down over her shoulders, was as fine and golden… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Her hair, which fell down over her shoulders, was as fine and golden as the clouds which disappear behind the mountain peaks in the rays of the setting sun. Add to these attractions a very small hand and a gait as graceful as the flight of a bird. Who acts: hair, clouds. A sentence of «Winning Buddh
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 116

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Her hair, which fell down over her shoulders, was as fine and golden as the clouds which disappear behind the mountain peaks in the rays of the setting sun. Add to these attractions a very small hand and a gait as graceful as the flight of a bird.

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**Who acts:** hair, clouds · **What happens:** fall down, be, disappear, peak, add, ray · **To what, where:** shoulders, mountain, rays, setting sun.

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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 (hair, clouds), 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:pg78208:6:118
# text = Her hair, which fell down over her shoulders, was as fine and golden as the clouds which disappear behind the mountain peaks in the rays of the setting sun. Add to these attractions a very small hand and a gait as graceful as the flight of a bird.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	disappear	disappear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	peaks	peak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	Add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	attractions	attraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	gait	gait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | girl's hair |  |  | girl's shoulders |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | girl's hair |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | girl's hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** | present | the clouds |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **peak** | present |  |  |  | the rays of the setting sun. |  | as the clouds | tree rules |
| 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to this attractions | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to attraction=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **ray** |  |  | the setting sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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