--- title: Then he felt better, and became anxious to try his new powers, so, t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Then he felt better, and became anxious to try his new powers, so, thanking his Majesty for his kindness, he began to swim away. Who acts: messenger. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/24/) [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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/) / 24 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 24 Then he felt better, and became anxious to try his new powers, so, thanking his Majesty for his kindness, he began to swim away. **Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** feel, become, try, thank, begin, swim away · **To what, where:** new powers, Majesty This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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:pg65965:16:24 # text = Then he felt better, and became anxious to try his new powers, so, thanking his Majesty for his kindness, he began to swim away. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 thanking thank VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 advcl _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | messenger | | | | then | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **become** | past | messenger *not said here* | | | | | anxious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | messenger *not said here* | messenger's new powers | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | messenger *not said here* | | messenger's Majesty | | | for messenger's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme for kindness=Attribute | | 5 | **begin** | past | messenger | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **swim away** | to-infinitive | messenger *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/)