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title: Everything out-of-doors on the contrary seemed to be dancing in a de… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything out-of-doors on the contrary seemed to be dancing in a delightful frolic of love. Who acts: Everything, love. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 78

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Everything out-of-doors on the contrary seemed to be dancing in a delightful frolic of love.

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**Who acts:** Everything, love · **What happens:** seem, dance, frolic · **To what, where:** delightful frolic

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, love), 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:pg78208:9:78
# text = Everything out-of-doors on the contrary seemed to be dancing in a delightful frolic of love.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	frolic	frolic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Everything out doors on the contrary |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **dance** | to-infinitive · progressive | Everything out doors on the contrary *not said here* |  |  | a delightful frolic of love |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frolic=Location |
| 3 | **frolic** |  | love |  |  |  |  |  | nom frolic «act intransitive»: of=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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