The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 66

And how do you come to know Yun-Ying?” asked the old woman, peering and blinking at him, with her hand over her eyes to shield them from the sun.

Who acts: you, Yun · What happens: come, know, ask, peer, blink, shield · To what, where: old woman, women, sun. · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Yun), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp
8	Yun	Yun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Yun	punct
10	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Yun	flat
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Yun	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 Yun	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 peering	punct
18	peering	peer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 asked	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blinking	cc
20	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 peering	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 blinking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hand	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 peering	obl
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hand	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 shield	mark
31	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 peering	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shield	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 sun.	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun.	det
35	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shield	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support	you					tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	Yun		the old woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
4	peer in a quote	gerund	Yun not said here				with Ying's hand over Ying's eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	blink in a quote	gerund	Yun not said here				at Yun	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
6	shield in a quote	to-infinitive	Yun not said here	women = woman		the sun.		tree rules

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 66

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 66