--- title: The second took the second; the third took the third; the fourth too… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The second took the second; the third took the third; the fourth took the fourth; the fifth took the fifth; the sixth took the sixth, and the seventh, the handsomest of all the Princes, took the beautiful and clever Balna. Who acts: second, third, fourth, fifth. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/93/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/) / 93 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 93 The second took the second; the third took the third; the fourth took the fourth; the fifth took the fifth; the sixth took the sixth, and the seventh, the handsomest of all the Princes, took the beautiful and clever Balna. **Who acts:** second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, beautiful Balna This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second, third, fourth, fifth), 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:pg65965:3:94 # text = The second took the second; the third took the third; the fourth took the fourth; the fifth took the fifth; the sixth took the sixth, and the seventh, the handsomest of all the Princes, took the beautiful and clever Balna. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 nsubj _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 seventh seventh NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 handsomest handsome ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 advcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 44 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ _ 47 Balna Balna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the second | the second | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | the third | the third | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | the fourth | the fourth | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | the fifth | the fifth | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme | | 5 | **take** | past | the sixth | the sixth | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixth=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past | the sixth *not said here* | | the beautiful Balna | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument balna=Destination | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/94/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/)