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title: She turned in this direction and saw two small polished stone flasks… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She turned in this direction and saw two small polished stone flasks which shone in the sunlight. Who acts: One, two small polished stone flasks. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 127

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She turned in this direction and saw two small polished stone flasks which shone in the sunlight.

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**Who acts:** One, two small polished stone flasks · **What happens:** turn, see, polish, shine · **To what, where:** direction, two small polished stone flasks, sunlight

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, two small polished stone flasks), 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:pg78208:8:129
# text = She turned in this direction and saw two small polished stone flasks which shone in the sunlight.
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	flasks	flask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	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 | **turn** | past | One |  |  | this direction |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | One *not said here* | two small polished stone flasks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus |
| 3 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shine** | past | two small polished stone flasks |  |  | the sunlight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |

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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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