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title: The weather became fearful; flash after flash lighted up the mountai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The weather became fearful; flash after flash lighted up the mountains of Jura, Savoy, and Switzerland, while peals of thunder, that lasted for many minutes, rolled over her head. Who acts: weather, peals, thunder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Con
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 56

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The weather became fearful; flash after flash lighted up the mountains of Jura, Savoy, and Switzerland, while peals of thunder, that lasted for many minutes, rolled over her head.

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**Who acts:** weather, peals, thunder · **What happens:** become, light up, last, roll, peal · **To what, where:** flash, many minutes, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, peals, 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:pg27200:66:56
# text = The weather became fearful; flash after flash lighted up the mountains of Jura, Savoy, and Switzerland, while peals of thunder, that lasted for many minutes, rolled over her head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Jura	Jura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Savoy	Savoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	peals	peal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | fearful *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **light up** | participle · passive |  | flash after flash |  |  |  | Switzerland *obl* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary mountain=Product |
| 3 | **last** | past | peals of thunder |  |  |  | minute |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | participle |  | many minutes *not said here* |  | weather's head |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory |
| 5 | **peal** |  | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom peal «event 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:** «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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