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title: For a few days the wind was fair, and everything seemed going smooth… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a few days the wind was fair, and everything seemed going smoothly; then, suddenly, a gale sprang up, and a fearful storm of thunder and lightning, such as had never happened within the memory of man. Who acts: wind, everything, gale, thunder. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 36

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For a few days the wind was fair, and everything seemed going smoothly; then, suddenly, a gale sprang up, and a fearful storm of thunder and lightning, such as had never happened within the memory of man.

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**Who acts:** wind, everything, gale, thunder · **What happens:** be, seem, go, spring up, not happen, storm

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, everything, gale, thunder), 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:pg2435:23:36
# text = For a few days the wind was fair, and everything seemed going smoothly; then, suddenly, a gale sprang up, and a fearful storm of thunder and lightning, such as had never happened within the memory of man.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
39	within	within	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  | day | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spring up** | past | a gale |  |  |  | then | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **happen** | past · perfect | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within the memory of man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **storm** |  | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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