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title: In a few minutes a dark cloud came rolling up the sky, giving out su… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few minutes a dark cloud came rolling up the sky, giving out such terrific claps of thunder that the wolves and the foxes and all the other creatures ran helter-skelter in all directions. Who acts: dark cloud, wolves, helter. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 88

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In a few minutes a dark cloud came rolling up the sky, giving out such terrific claps of thunder that the wolves and the foxes and all the other creatures ran helter-skelter in all directions.

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**Who acts:** dark cloud, wolves, helter · **What happens:** come, roll up, give out, run, skelter, clap · **To what, where:** sky, such terrific claps, directions, thunder

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark cloud, wolves, helter), 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:pg3282:16:88
# text = In a few minutes a dark cloud came rolling up the sky, giving out such terrific claps of thunder that the wolves and the foxes and all the other creatures ran helter-skelter in all directions.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	claps	clap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
32	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
33	helter	helter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	skelter	skelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a dark cloud |  |  |  | minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll up** | gerund | a dark cloud *not said here* | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Agent |
| 3 | **give out** | gerund | a dark cloud *not said here* | such terrific claps of thunder |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent clap=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | the wolves and the foxes and all other creatures | such terrific claps of thunder |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **skelter** | infinitive | helter |  |  | all directions |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **clap** |  |  | thunder |  |  |  |  | nom clap «event 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:** «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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