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title: Where have you been?” asked Han Chung, while little Ho-Seen-Ko wonde… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 71

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Where have you been?” asked Han Chung, while little Ho-Seen-Ko wondered why he kissed and embraced them all so eagerly.

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**Who acts:** little Ho, Ho · **What happens:** be, wonder, kiss, embrace · **To what, where:** Han, lanterns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:23:71
# text = Where have you been?” asked Han Chung, while little Ho-Seen-Ko wondered why he kissed and embraced them all so eagerly.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	Chung	Chung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Seen	Seen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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