The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 71
Where have you been?” asked Han Chung, while little Ho-Seen-Ko wondered why he kissed and embraced them all so eagerly.
Who acts: little Ho, Ho · What happens: be, wonder, kiss, embrace · To what, where: Han, lanterns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Ho, Ho), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 have | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | cop |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | Chung | Chung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Han | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wondered | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 wondered | mark |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Ho | amod |
| 13 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wondered | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ho | punct |
| 15 | Seen | Seen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ho | flat |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ko | punct |
| 17 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ho | conj |
| 18 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 kissed | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kissed | nsubj |
| 21 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wondered | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 embraced | cc |
| 23 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 embraced | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 embraced | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 eagerly | advmod |
| 27 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 23 embraced | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | participle | Han | ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | past | little Ho and Ko | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kiss in a quote | past | Ho | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | embrace in a quote | past | lanterns = lantern | eagerly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
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.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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