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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 better | advmod |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walk | cc |
| 17 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 get | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 window | amod |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walk | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beheld | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beheld | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 beheld | expl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 beheld | nsubj |
| 27 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sight | det |
| 29 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sight | amod |
| 30 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beheld | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
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.
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