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description: The young girl had had so many adventures in so short a time that this strange coincidence did not cause her any surprise. Who acts: young girl, strange coincidence. 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 129

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The young girl had had so many adventures in so short a time that this strange coincidence did not cause her any surprise.

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**Who acts:** young girl, strange coincidence · **What happens:** have, not cause · **To what, where:** many adventures, girl

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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 (young girl, strange coincidence), 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:pg78208:8:131
# text = The young girl had had so many adventures in so short a time that this strange coincidence did not cause her any surprise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | the young girl | many adventures |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **cause** | past · do-support | this strange coincidence | girl |  |  |  | any surprise *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer she=Theme surprise=Eventuality |

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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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