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title: The fourth knight was to find the dragon whose right eye was a many-… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The fourth knight was to find the dragon whose right eye was a many-colored stone, and to bring the eye to her. Who acts: fourth knight, right eye. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

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The fourth knight was to find the dragon whose right eye was a many-colored stone, and to bring the eye to her.

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**Who acts:** fourth knight, right eye · **What happens:** be, color, bring · **To what, where:** colored stone, eye, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth knight, right eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:5:24
# text = The fourth knight was to find the dragon whose right eye was a many-colored stone, and to bring the eye to her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fourth knight |  |  |  |  | the dragon *obj*; find *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a colored stone's right eye | a colored stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the fourth knight *not said here* | the eye | Princess |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to she=Destination |

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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.

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**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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