--- title: He was very much pleased that so many people who were scholars shoul… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He was very much pleased that so many people who were scholars should write so much about his palace and garden, but he was surprised to find that in each book the Nightingale was spoken of as the finest and most wonderful thing of all. Who acts: BOOK, many people. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/115/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/) / 115 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 115 He was very much pleased that so many people who were scholars should write so much about his palace and garden, but he was surprised to find that in each book the Nightingale was spoken of as the finest and most wonderful thing of all. **Who acts:** BOOK, many people · **What happens:** be, write, find, speak · **To what, where:** scholars, Nightingale, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BOOK, many 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:1:123 # text = He was very much pleased that so many people who were scholars should write so much about his palace and garden, but he was surprised to find that in each book the Nightingale was spoken of as the finest and most wonderful thing of all. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Nightingale Nightingale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 ccomp _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 40 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 43 advmod _ _ 43 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | BOOK | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | many people | scholars | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **write** | should | many people | | | | | about BOOK's palace and garden | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about palace=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | BOOK | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | BOOK *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive | | the Nightingale | | each book | | of the finest wonderful thing of all | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/116/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/)