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title: Whereupon a noise like thunder shook it from top to bottom, fire bro… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereupon a noise like thunder shook it from top to bottom, fire broke out, and in a few minutes a little heap of ashes lay in the place where it had stood. Who acts: noise, fire, few minutes. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tre
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 107

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Whereupon a noise like thunder shook it from top to bottom, fire broke out, and in a few minutes a little heap of ashes lay in the place where it had stood.

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**Who acts:** noise, fire, few minutes · **What happens:** shake, break out, lay, stand · **To what, where:** thunder, top, place, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, fire, few minutes), 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:pg3282:14:107
# text = Whereupon a noise like thunder shook it from top to bottom, fire broke out, and in a few minutes a little heap of ashes lay in the place where it had stood.
1	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | a noise like thunder | thunder |  | top to bottom |  | whereupon *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from top=Trajectory |
| 2 | **break out** | past | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | present | a few minutes |  |  | the place |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past · perfect · passive |  | fire |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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