--- title: The fifth knight was to find the swallow which carried a shell in it… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The fifth knight was to find the swallow which carried a shell in its stomach, and which lived in the Aegean Sea, and to bring her the shell. Who acts: fifth knight, swallow. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/25/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/) / 25 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 25 The fifth knight was to find the swallow which carried a shell in its stomach, and which lived in the Aegean Sea, and to bring her the shell. **Who acts:** fifth knight, swallow · **What happens:** be, carry, live, bring · **To what, where:** shell, stomach, Aegean Sea, Princess 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 (fifth knight, swallow), 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:pg65965:5:25 # text = The fifth knight was to find the swallow which carried a shell in its stomach, and which lived in the Aegean Sea, and to bring her the shell. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Aegean Aegean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the fifth knight | | | | | the swallow *obj*; find *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | past | the swallow | a shell | | shell's stomach | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shell=Value in stomach=Location | | 3 | **live** | past | | | | the Aegean Sea | | which *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the fifth knight *not said here* | the shell | Princess | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination shell=Theme | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/26/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/)