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title: Very much puzzled, she sent her servant to inquire who could be the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Very much puzzled, she sent her servant to inquire who could be the author of the verses she had just heard. 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 149

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Very much puzzled, she sent her servant to inquire who could be the author of the verses she had just heard.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** puzzle, send, inquire, be, hear · **To what, where:** servant, author, verses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg78208:6:151
# text = Very much puzzled, she sent her servant to inquire who could be the author of the verses she had just heard.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puzzle** | participle | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **send** | past | girl | girl's servant |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | could |  | the author |  |  |  | of the verses; who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect | girl | the verses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer verse=Stimulus |

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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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