--- title: Opening, part 26 — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · full text with trees description: Opening, part 26, «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a shallow stream running through the grass lay at their --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/) [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 26 # Opening, part 26 Opening, part 26 of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens: the whole text, 110 sentences and 2597 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/26/page/2/) To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a shallow stream running through the grass lay at their feet.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") The Geni was much impressed by the wonderful things Pei-Hang seemed able to do.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He was not bad-hearted, so he showed him the nearest way to the home of the Genii on the top of Mount Sumi.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") It was a long and wearisome climb, but at last they got up there, and found eight of the Genii sitting on eight snow-peaks, and looking down on the Lake of Gems, as Yun-Ying had said.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The Lake of Gems lay on the other side of Mount Sumi, and was a beautiful sheet of water, flashing all the colors of the rainbow.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang could not take his eyes away from it.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He forgot all about the pestle and mortar as he watched the waves rippling along the shore, and leaving behind them diamonds, rubies, sapphires and pearls in thousands.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Each pebble on the margin of the lake was a precious stone, and Pei-Hang wanted to go down and fill his pockets with them.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “We must let him have the pestle and mortar,” said the Geni who had been his guide, and who had told the others about the wonderful red and white seeds while Pei-Hang was standing spell-bound by the beauty of the Lake.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “If we don’t he won’t give us back our rivers.”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The eight Genii nodded their eight heads, and spoke all at once, and the noise they made was like the rumble of thunder among the mountains.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let him take it, if he can carry it,” they said.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") And they laughed until the snow-peaks shook beneath them; for the mortar made of jade was six feet high and four feet wide, and the pestle was so heavy no mortal could lift it.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang, when he had finished staring at the Lake of Gems, walked round it, and wondered how he was to carry it down the mountain and across the plains to Chang-ngan.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Genii, even his own good-natured Geni, laughed at him again.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come!” they said.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") “If you like to fill the mortar with precious stones, you may do so.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Any man who can carry it empty can carry it full.”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “Because no one can carry it at all,” concluded the good-natured Geni softly to himself.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang folded his arms and sat still, and thought, and thought, and took no notice of their gibes and jeers.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He had not studied for three years under the wisest man in Chang-ngan for nothing, and, besides, he was determined to marry Yun-Ying, and when young men are very much in love, they sometimes accomplish things which seem to be impossible.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") At last he jumped up and asked the friendly Geni if he would make a little heap of stones at one side of the mortar.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") “I want to be able to look inside it, and I am not tall enough,” said he.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") “And why don’t you do it yourself?” asked the Geni.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") “Because I must go down to the Lake of Gems and collect precious stones,” replied Pei-Hang.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he ran down to the shore of the lake and gathered diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, and sapphires, as many as he could carry.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") This he did again and again, emptying them into the mortar each time, until it was quite full and held gems enough to make Pei-Hang the richest man in China.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") And this was just what he wanted to be, for the yellow-faced mandarin was only the richest man in Chang-ngan, and he knew that the richest man in China would have much the greater chance of winning Yun-Ying.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") “Well, what next?” cried the eight Genii, when he had finished.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") “Will you take it on your shoulder or on your head?”[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will just carry it under my arm,” replied Pei-Hang.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") He took out his little box, threw one of the red seeds on top of the gems, and in a moment the tremendous pestle and mortar shrank into one of ordinary size.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang put the pestle in his pocket, and took up the mortar carefully, because he did not wish to lose any of the precious stones.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he bowed low to the Genii, thanked them, and said good-by.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") This time they did not laugh, but each of them roared with rage.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") They dared not stop him, knowing that he had the power to turn the four brooks into rivers again.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang hastened away, and on his journey did exactly as he had promised.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") After crossing the first brook, he threw a white seed into it, and turned it into an inky black waste of water a mile wide, full of fishes six yards long, and every fish covered with spikes.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") When the Genii saw this they stopped roaring, so glad were they to see the Black River guarding them once more from the outer world.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") On reaching the Red River, the White River, and the Blue River, Pei-Hang did the same thing, and since that time no one has been able to find the home of the Genii, because no one else could cross the Blue River, much less the other three.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Having traveled for seven days Pei-Hang came to his father’s and mother’s house.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") He told them all that he had experienced, and for each white seed his mother had given him he gave her a jewel as large as an egg.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he went on to Chang-ngan, where he found that Yun-Ying’s mother had spread a report that he was dead, and had invited all her friends to attend a wedding feast in honor of her daughter’s marriage with the yellow-faced old mandarin.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The wedding had not taken place when Pei-Hang arrived, but Yun-Ying was already arrayed in her wedding dress, and was standing beneath a peach tree which stood in front of the house.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as she saw him she threw herself into his arms, and shed tears of joy at his safe return.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") He put down the pestle and mortar and kissed Yun-Ying’s tears away.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Then her mother came, and said:[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are too late to marry my daughter, but I’ll buy the pestle and mortar from you with some of the money the mandarin gave me.”[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, no, you will not,” replied Pei-Hang.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") He then dropped one of his white seeds into the mortar, and it at once became so large that it covered the whole grass plot under the peach tree, and it was filled to the brim with glittering precious stones.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") He then climbed into a branch overhanging it, and from there he threw down to the wedding guests handfuls of jewels, and the yellow-faced mandarin was as busy as any one picking them up, much to the disgust of many who thought he was rich enough already.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang offered him three diamonds, each as large as a sparrow’s egg, if he would go away and forget that he ever knew Yun-Ying.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") These the mandarin took and away he went.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") He was sure that Yun-Ying’s mother would have no more to do with him now that she could marry her daughter to one who scattered jewels as Pei-Hang did.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") The wedding feast took place, only the bridegrooms were changed.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang married Yun-Ying, and took her to where his father and mother lived, and they were as happy as could be.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it was too large and too heavy to be moved, and it was certainly of no use to Yun-Ying’s mother, because it was too big for her to pound her magic drugs in, even if she could get inside it, which she couldn’t.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") This made her very angry, but it served her right because of the unfair manner in which she had treated Pei-Hang.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** 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