--- title: So much better did he feel that he was able to get out of bed and wa… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: So much better did he feel that he was able to get out of bed and walk to the open window, and there his eyes beheld a wonderful sight. Who acts: better, Emperor, eyes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/26/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/) / 26 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 26 So much better did he feel that he was able to get out of bed and walk to the open window, and there his eyes beheld a wonderful sight. **Who acts:** better, Emperor, eyes · **What happens:** feel, be, get out, walk, behold · **To what, where:** bed, wonderful sight This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (better, Emperor, eyes), 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:pg65965:2:26 # text = So much better did he feel that he was able to get out of bed and walk to the open window, and there his eyes beheld a wonderful sight. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | better | | | | | Emperor *nsubj* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | Emperor | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | bed | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | | | | | to the open window *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | | 5 | **behold** | past | Emperor's eyes | a wonderful sight | | there | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/27/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/)