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title: One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightnin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Who acts: terrible storm, thunder, rain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 6

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One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents.

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**Who acts:** terrible storm, thunder, rain · **What happens:** come on, be, pour down · **To what, where:** torrents

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible storm, thunder, rain), 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:pg27200:150:6
# text = One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | a terrible storm |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | thunder and lightning |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pour down** | participle | the rain |  |  | torrents |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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