--- title: The animal made a move to seize him, but with one stroke of his figh… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The animal made a move to seize him, but with one stroke of his fighting knife the boy cut the snake into two pieces, one of which he threw into the sea and the other into the mountains. Who acts: animal, boy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/50/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/) / 50 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 50 The animal made a move to seize him, but with one stroke of his fighting knife the boy cut the snake into two pieces, one of which he threw into the sea and the other into the mountains. **Who acts:** animal, boy · **What happens:** make, seize, cut, throw, stroke · **To what, where:** move, animal, snake, two pieces, sea, fighting knife This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, boy), 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:pg65965:24:52 # text = The animal made a move to seize him, but with one stroke of his fighting knife the boy cut the snake into two pieces, one of which he threw into the sea and the other into the mountains. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 fighting fighting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the animal | a move | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Product | | 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the animal *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | past | the boy | the snake | | | | into two pieces *result*; with one stroke of animal's fighting knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent snake=Patient with stroke=Instrument into piece=Result | | 4 | **throw** | past | boy | | | the sea | | which *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent of which=Initial\_Location into sea=Destination | | 5 | **stroke** | | | animal's fighting knife | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/)