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title: After that the widow’s son stopped only long enough to burn the gian… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: After that the widow’s son stopped only long enough to burn the giant’s house, and then rushed on looking for someone else to slay. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 77

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After that the widow’s son stopped only long enough to burn the giant’s house, and then rushed on looking for someone else to slay.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** stop, burn, rush, look, slay · **To what, where:** house

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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 (son), 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:pg65965:15:78
# text = After that the widow’s son stopped only long enough to burn the giant’s house, and then rushed on looking for someone else to slay.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	else	else	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the widow's son |  |  |  | after that | long *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive | the widow's son *not said here* | the giant's house |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **rush** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for someone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme |
| 5 | **slay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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