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title: She wrapped the little fellow as well as she could, tearing bandages… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She wrapped the little fellow as well as she could, tearing bandages from her own clothes. Who acts: Yeng. 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 8

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She wrapped the little fellow as well as she could, tearing bandages from her own clothes.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** wrap, tear · **To what, where:** little fellow, bandages

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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 (Yeng), 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:pg78208:6:8
# text = She wrapped the little fellow as well as she could, tearing bandages from her own clothes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tearing	tear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	bandages	bandage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | Yeng |  | the little fellow |  |  | well *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fellow=Destination |
| 2 | **tear** | gerund | Yeng *not said here* | bandages |  |  |  | from Yeng's own clothes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bandage=Patient from clothes=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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