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title: But the next morning a thunderbolt descended and struck the stone, a… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the next morning a thunderbolt descended and struck the stone, and shivered it to atoms. Who acts: thunderbolt. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 27

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But the next morning a thunderbolt descended and struck the stone, and shivered it to atoms.

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**Who acts:** thunderbolt · **What happens:** descend, strike, shiver · **To what, where:** stone

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunderbolt), 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:pg29672:10:27
# text = But the next morning a thunderbolt descended and struck the stone, and shivered it to atoms.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shivered	shiver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	atoms	atom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past | a thunderbolt |  |  |  | morning |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | past | a thunderbolt *not said here* | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 3 | **shiver** | past | a thunderbolt *not said here* | stone |  |  |  | to atoms | tree rules |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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