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title: As he spoke these words there was a great noise of thunder, and Jupi… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: As he spoke these words there was a great noise of thunder, and Jupiter appeared before him wielding his mighty thunderbolts. Who acts: fortune, Jupiter, thunder. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\], sentence 177

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As he spoke these words there was a great noise of thunder, and Jupiter appeared before him wielding his mighty thunderbolts.

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**Who acts:** fortune, Jupiter, thunder · **What happens:** speak, appear, wield, noise · **To what, where:** words, mighty thunderbolts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, Jupiter, 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:pg29021:14:177
# text = As he spoke these words there was a great noise of thunder, and Jupiter appeared before him wielding his mighty thunderbolts.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wielding	wield	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thunderbolts	thunderbolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | fortune | this words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wield** | gerund | fortune | fortune's mighty thunderbolts |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunderbolt=Theme |
| 4 | **noise** |  | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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