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title: When these clouds met the world went dark for a space, and there fel… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When these clouds met the world went dark for a space, and there fell from the sky a shower of hailstones, so large that each man wondered at their size, and so swift and heavy that the women and young people of the host screamed from the pain of the blows they received. Who acts: clouds, world, man
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5

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When these clouds met the world went dark for a space, and there fell from the sky a shower of hailstones, so large that each man wondered at their size, and so swift and heavy that the women and young people of the host screamed from the pain of the blows they received.

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**Who acts:** clouds, world, man, women · **What happens:** meet, go, fall, wonder, swift, scream · **To what, where:** shower, sky, size, pain, blows

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, world, man, women), 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:pg2892:74:5
# text = When these clouds met the world went dark for a space, and there fell from the sky a shower of hailstones, so large that each man wondered at their size, and so swift and heavy that the women and young people of the host screamed from the pain of the blows they received.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | this clouds |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | the world |  |  |  |  | for a space; dark *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for space=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the world *not said here* | a shower of hailstones |  | the sky; there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | each man |  |  | clouds's size |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **swift** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the women and young people of the host |  |  | the pain of the blows |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **receive** | past | clouds *= cloud* | the blows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 8 | **pain** |  |  | the blows |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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