--- title: Cornelia's Jewels. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Cornelia's Jewels., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome many hundred years ago. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/) [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/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / Cornelia's Jewels. # Cornelia's Jewels. Cornelia's Jewels. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 33 sentences and 531 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/1/) — It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome many hundred years ago. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/2/) — In a vine-covered summer-house in a beautiful garden, two boys were standing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/3/) — They were looking at their mother and her friend, who were walking among the flowers and trees. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/4/) — "Did you ever see so handsome a lady as our mother's friend?" asked the younger boy, holding his tall brother's hand. " - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/5/) — She looks like a queen." - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/6/) — "Yet she is not so beautiful as our mother," said the elder boy. " - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/7/) — She has a fine dress, it is true; but her face is not noble and kind. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/8/) — It is our mother who is like a queen." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/9/) — "That is true," said the other. " - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/10/) — There is no woman in Rome so much like a queen as our own dear mother." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/11/) — Soon Cor-ne'li-a, their mother, came down the walk to speak with them. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/12/) — She was simply dressed in a plain white robe. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/13/) — Her arms and feet were bare, as was the custom in those days; and no rings nor chains glit-tered about her hands and neck. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/14/) — For her only crown, long braids of soft brown hair were coiled about her head; and a tender smile lit up her noble face as she looked into her sons' proud eyes. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/15/) — "Boys," she said, "I have something to tell you." - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/16/) — They bowed before her, as Roman lads were taught to do, and said, "What is it, mother?" - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/17/) — "You are to dine with us to-day, here in the garden; and then our friend is going to show us that wonderful casket of jewels of which you have heard so much." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/18/) — The brothers looked shyly at their mother's friend. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/19/) — Was it possible that she had still other rings besides those on her fingers? - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/20/) — Could she have other gems besides those which sparkled in the chains about her neck? - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/21/) — When the simple out-door meal was over, a servant brought the casket from the house. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/22/) — The lady opened it. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/23/) — Ah, how those jewels dazzled the eyes of the wondering boys! - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/24/) — There were ropes of pearls, white as milk, and smooth as satin; heaps of shining rubies, red as the glowing coals; sap-phires as blue as the sky that summer day; and di-a-monds that flashed and sparkled like the sunlight. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/25/) — The brothers looked long at the gems. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/26/) — "Ah!" whis-pered the younger; "if our mother could only have such beautiful things!" - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/27/) — At last, how-ever, the casket was closed and carried care-ful-ly away. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/28/) — "Is it true, Cor-ne-li-a, that you have no jewels?" asked her friend. " - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/29/) — Is it true, as I have heard it whis-pered, that you are poor?" - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/30/) — "No, I am not poor," answered Cornelia, and as she spoke she drew her two boys to her side; "for here are my jewels. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/31/) — They are worth more than all your gems." - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/32/) — I am sure that the boys never forgot their mother's pride and love and care; and in after years, when they had become great men in Rome, they often thought of this scene in the garden. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/29/33/) — And the world still likes to hear the story of Cornelia's jewels. - ← previous: [The Story of Regulus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/28/) - next →: [Androclus and the Lion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/30/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)