The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 33

The giant roared so that the stones rattled together and rushed upon Rasalu, who at once fitted an arrow to his bow, let fly, and slew him.

Who acts: giant · What happens: roar, rattle, rush, fit, let, slay · To what, where: stones, Rasalu, fly, mountain

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roared	nsubj
3	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 stones	case
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roared	obl
8	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stones	acl
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 rattled	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rushed	cc
11	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roared	conj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Rasalu	case
13	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 rushed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fitted	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 fitted	nsubj:pass
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 fitted	mark
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 fitted	advmod
18	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Rasalu	acl:relcl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 arrow	det
20	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fitted	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 bow	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bow	nmod:poss
23	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrow	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 arrow	conj
26	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 let	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slew	cc
29	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roared	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slew	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roar	past	the giant			so the stones	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	rattle	participle		the stones not said here		together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rush	past	the giant not said here		Rasalu		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rasalu=Trajectory
4	fit	participle · passive		Rasalu		a arrow obj; once property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme arrow=Destination
5	let	infinitive		fly			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
6	slay	past	the giant not said here	mountain			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 27, sentence 33

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 33