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title: At ten o’clock she came daintily along the garden path, advancing ga… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: At ten o’clock she came daintily along the garden path, advancing gaily and smiling. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 29

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At ten o’clock she came daintily along the garden path, advancing gaily and smiling.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** come, advance, smile · **To what, where:** ten o’clock

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. 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:pg78208:7:29
# text = At ten o’clock she came daintily along the garden path, advancing gaily and smiling.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	daintily	daintily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | girl |  |  | ten o’clock |  | along the garden path; daintily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **advance** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **smile** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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