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title: The lightning struck and split to the roots the old venerable oak. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lightning struck and split to the roots the old venerable oak. Who acts: lightning. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 72

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The lightning struck and split to the roots the old venerable oak.

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**Who acts:** lightning · **What happens:** strike, split

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (lightning), 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:pg27200:24:72
# text = The lightning struck and split to the roots the old venerable oak.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | participle | the lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **split** | participle | the lightning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the roots  the old venerable oak *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to root=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:** «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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