The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 76

The boy did not stop to answer, but rushed at the giant with his knife; and for three days and nights they struggled, till the giant fell, wounded at the waist.

Who acts: boy, ceiling, giant · What happens: not stop, answer, rush, struggle, fall, wound · To what, where: three days, waist

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, ceiling, giant), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 answer	mark
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rushed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 rushed	cc
10	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 giant	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rushed	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 knife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knife	nmod:poss
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rushed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 days	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 days	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 days	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nights	cc
23	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 days	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 struggled	nsubj
25	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 days	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giant	det
29	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 struggled	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wounded	punct
32	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 fell	parataxis
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 waist	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 waist	det
35	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wounded	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past · do-support	the boy			day		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the boy not said here					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rush	past					at the giant; with boy's knife	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at giant=Trajectory
4	struggle	past	ceiling	three days and nights not said here				tree rules
5	fall	past	the giant					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wound	participle			the waist			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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.

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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 76

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 76