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title: Darkness now fell, the wind howled, and torrents of rain poured upon… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Darkness now fell, the wind howled, and torrents of rain poured upon them. Who acts: Darkness, wind. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 82

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Darkness now fell, the wind howled, and torrents of rain poured upon them.

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**Who acts:** Darkness, wind · **What happens:** fall, howl, pour · **To what, where:** torrents

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darkness, wind), 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:pg3027:30:82
# text = Darkness now fell, the wind howled, and torrents of rain poured upon them.
1	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Darkness |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **howl** | past | the wind | torrents of rain |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pour** | participle |  | torrents of rain *not said here* |  |  |  | upon torrents *= torrent* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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