--- title: Opening, part 1 — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · full text with trees description: Opening, part 1, «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: The Jewel Series --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/) [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 1 # Opening, part 1 Opening, part 1 of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens: the whole text, 181 sentences and 2555 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/pg65965/1/page/2/) The Jewel Series[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") THE DIAMOND STORY BOOK.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Compiled by PENRHYN W. COUSSENS.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Illustrations in color by Ethel Green.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") THE EMERALD STORY BOOK.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Stories of Spring, Nature, and Easter.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ By ADA and ELEANOR SKINNER.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Maxfield Parrish.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") THE RUBY STORY BOOK.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Tales of Courage and Heroism.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Retold by PENRHYN W. COUSSENS.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Maxfield Parrish.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") THE SAPPHIRE STORY BOOK.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Tales of the Sea.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Collected and retold by PENRHYN W. COUSSENS.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Maxfield Parrish.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") THE TOPAZ STORY BOOK.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe’en, and Thanksgiving.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Compiled by ADA M. and ELEANOR L. SKINNER.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Maxfield Parrish.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") THE TURQUOISE STORY BOOK.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ By ADA M. and ELEANOR L. SKINNER.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Maxfield Parrish.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") THE PEARL STORY BOOK.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas and New Year’s Day.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Compiled by ADA M. and ELEANOR L. SKINNER.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Maxfield Parrish.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") THE GARNET STORY BOOK.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Tales of Cheer both Old and New.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Compiled by ADA M. and ELEANOR L. SKINNER.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Dugald S. Walker.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") THE JADE STORY BOOK.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Stories from the Orient.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") \_ Compiled by PENRHYN W. COUSSENS.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Frontispiece in color by Dugald Stewart Walker.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") THE JADE STORY BOOK[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Stories from the Orient\_[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") BY[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") PENRHYN W. COUSSENS[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Author of “The Diamond Story Book,” “The Ruby Story Book,” “The Sapphire Story Book.”[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") Editor of “One Thousand Books for Children,” “A Child’s Book of Stories,” “Poems Children Love,” etc.\_[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") FRONTISPIECE BY DUGALD STEWART WALKER[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") NEW YORK DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 1922[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") Copyright, 1922, by DUFFIELD & COMPANY[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Printed in the United States of America[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") TO MY[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") DEAREST PAL[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") MY WIFE[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") CONTENTS[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") \_Arranged Alphabetically\_[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") PAGE[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") PREFACE ix[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") ADVENTURES OF JUAN, THE \_Tagalog\_ 298[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") CRANE AND THE CRAB, THE \_India\_ 111[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") DYED JACKAL, THE \_India\_ 244[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") EMPRESS JANQWI AND THE MAGICIANS \_China\_ 260[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") FAITHFUL RAJPOOT, THE \_India\_ 16[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") FEAST OF THE LANTERNS, THE \_China\_ 303[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") FOUR FRIENDS, THE \_Persia\_ 292[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") FOX AND THE CRAFTY CRAB, THE \_China\_ 67[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") HE WISHED TO LIVE FOREVER \_Japan\_ 102[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") HOW THE BIRDS SAVED THE EMPEROR’S LIFE \_China\_ 3[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") IN UNION IS STRENGTH \_China\_ 323[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") INGRATITUDE \_India\_ 70[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") JACKAL, DEER AND THE CROW, THE \_India\_ 89[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") LION AND THE HARE, THE \_India\_ 116[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") LUMAWIG ON EARTH \_Igorot\_ 316[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") MR. SIN, THE CARP \_China\_ 206[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") MYSTERIOUS GARDEN, THE \_India\_ 357[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") PAPER BAG, THE \_Japan\_ 77[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") PESTLE AND MORTAR OF JADE, THE \_China\_ 338[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") PIGEON-KING AND MOUSE-KING \_India\_ 98[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") PRINCE AHMED \_Persia\_ 141[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") PRINCE VARNA \_Persia\_ 250[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") PRINCE ZEYN ALASNAM AND THE SULTAN OF THE GENII \_Persia\_ 218[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") PRINCESS MOONLIGHT \_Japan\_ 52[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") PUNCHKIN \_India\_ 30[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") RASALU, THE FAKIR AND THE GIANTS \_India\_ 365[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") RAJAH RASALU \_India\_ 271[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") ROSAMOND, THE SWIFT OF FOOT \_Oriental\_ 84[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") STORY OF BANTUGAN, THE \_Moro\_ 326[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") STORY OF CALIPH STORK, THE \_Oriental\_ 119[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") TALE OF TWO MERCHANTS, THE \_Persia\_ 23[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") WHY DOGS WAG THEIR TAILS \_Visayan\_ 247[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") WIDOW’S SON, THE \_Mindanao\_ 198[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") PREFACE[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") “The Jade Story Book” contains tales gathered from the folklore of Far Eastern countries—India, China, Japan, the Philippine Islands and Persia.[88](88/ "tree and pragmatics") Most of those from India are adapted from “The Hitopadesa,” which is also known as “The Book of Good Counsels,” and “The Criterion of Wisdom.”[89](89/ "tree and pragmatics") It may also be called “The Father of All Fables.”[90](90/ "tree and pragmatics") These Fables were originally compiled in Sanscrit, and later, many centuries later, (about the year 600 A. D.), they were rendered into Persic.[91](91/ "tree and pragmatics") About two hundred and fifty years afterwards they were translated into the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek languages.[92](92/ "tree and pragmatics") They are perhaps best known in India today under the title of “Anvari Suhaili.”[93](93/ "tree and pragmatics") The translation from which these particular stories are adapted is that from the original Sanscrit made by Sir Edwin Arnold.[94](94/ "tree and pragmatics") The Igorot, Tagalog, Visayan, Mindanao and Moro stories are used by kind permission of A. C. McClurg & Co., publishers of “Philippine Folk Tales,” edited by Mabel Cook Cole.[95](95/ "tree and pragmatics") Several of the Persian stories are taken from “The Arabian Nights” and others, from Persia, India, China and Japan, are adapted from various sources, not least of which is “Gesta Romanorum.”[96](96/ "tree and pragmatics") One of them, “The Story of Caliph Stork,” is from the collection by Wilhelm Hauff.[97](97/ "tree and pragmatics") The author has on other occasions seized the opportunity to emphasize the fact that fairy tales and fables are really necessary to the child, who, without them, is being defrauded of that which belongs to him.[98](98/ "tree and pragmatics") They stimulate the youthful imagination and provide a good foundation for the further development of the mind.[99](99/ "tree and pragmatics") Most fairy stories not only amuse, but their unfolding shows the child that good invariably triumphs over evil, and the moral is that one who is kind, polite, generous, unselfish and brave wins in the end.[100](100/ "tree and pragmatics") Surely this is worth while.[101](101/ "tree and pragmatics") THE JADE STORY BOOK[102](102/ "tree and pragmatics") HOW THE BIRDS SAVED THE EMPEROR’S LIFE[103](103/ "tree and pragmatics") There was once an Emperor of China whose palace was the most wonderful in the world, being built entirely of priceless porcelain.[104](104/ "tree and pragmatics") In the garden were the most beautiful flowers, on some of which were little golden bells which tinkled in the wind so that you could not help looking at them.[105](105/ "tree and pragmatics") It was a really wonderful garden, and so large that even the Head Gardener himself did not know where it ended.[106](106/ "tree and pragmatics") If you should reach the end of the garden you would come to a magnificent forest in which were great trees and deep lakes.[107](107/ "tree and pragmatics") The banks sloped down to the water, which was as clear as crystal.[108](108/ "tree and pragmatics") Overhanging the lakes were the boughs of some of the trees, which were so large that ships could sail beneath them.[109](109/ "tree and pragmatics") In one of these trees there lived a Nightingale which sang so beautifully that a poor fisherman, who had a great deal to do, even stopped his work to listen to the bird singing.[110](110/ "tree and pragmatics") “How beautiful it is!” he said, but he had to attend to his duties and then forgot about the bird.[111](111/ "tree and pragmatics") But each night it was the same; the fisherman could not resist the temptation and he left his work to listen to the bird.[112](112/ "tree and pragmatics") The Emperor’s palace and garden were so magnificent that many travelers from foreign countries wrote books describing their beauty; but every scholar who wrote said that the finest thing of all was the singing of this Nightingale.[113](113/ "tree and pragmatics") These books were read by many people all over the world, and at last some of them reached the Emperor, who sat in his chair of solid jade and read and read and read.[114](114/ "tree and pragmatics") He was very much pleased that so many people who were scholars should write so much about his palace and garden, but he was surprised to find that in each book the Nightingale was spoken of as the finest and most wonderful thing of all.[115](115/ "tree and pragmatics") “It is very strange,” said the Emperor, “I’ve never heard this Nightingale and it does seem unusual that I should know about it for the first time from reading books written by travellers.”[116](116/ "tree and pragmatics") He called his First Lord to him and said, “In all of these books there is mention of a very remarkable bird which is called ‘The Nightingale.’[117](117/ "tree and pragmatics") The writers all say that it is the most glorious thing in my kingdom.[118](118/ "tree and pragmatics") How is it that no one has ever told me about it?”[119](119/ "tree and pragmatics") “Why, I don’t know anything about it myself,” said the First Lord, “but I will go and find it.”[120](120/ "tree and pragmatics") The First Lord didn’t know where it was, so he ran all over the palace and asked everybody there, but none of them had ever heard of the Nightingale.[121](121/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he returned to the Emperor and said it must be an invention of those who had written the books.[122](122/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/page/2/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/page/2/) - ↑ back to [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/)