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title: Suddenly a terrible hurricane arose, a mighty thunder smote, and the… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly a terrible hurricane arose, a mighty thunder smote, and the two mountains were torn asunder. Who acts: terrible hurricane. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 76

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Suddenly a terrible hurricane arose, a mighty thunder smote, and the two mountains were torn asunder.

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**Who acts:** terrible hurricane · **What happens:** arise, tear · **To what, where:** mighty thunder smote, two mountains

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible hurricane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:42:76
# text = Suddenly a terrible hurricane arose, a mighty thunder smote, and the two mountains were torn asunder.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	smote	smote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | a terrible hurricane | a mighty thunder smote |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tear** | past · passive |  | the two mountains |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient asunder=Result |

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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:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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