The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 56

But Yun-Ying was quite real; only her mother, who knew something of magic, had given her the power of stepping in and out of people’s dreams.

Who acts: Yun Ying, mother, power, people · What happens: be, know, give, step, dream · To what, where: something, power, Ying

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yun Ying, mother, power, people), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 real	cc
2	Yun	Yun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ying	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Yun	punct
4	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 real	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 real	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 real	advmod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 mother	advmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 real	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mother	acl:relcl
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 knew	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 magic	case
17	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 knew	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 power	det
23	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obj
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 stepping	mark
25	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 power	acl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 stepping	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dreams	cc
28	out	out	ADP	_	32 dreams	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 dreams	case
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dreams	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 people	case
32	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 in	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 real	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Yun Ying			Ying's mother obl; real property	tree rules
2	know	past	Ying's mother	something of magic			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	give	past · perfect	Ying's mother not said here	the power	Ying		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme
4	step	gerund	the power not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dream		people				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 56