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title: So the lightning disappeared into the cloud for a moment to gather u… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the lightning disappeared into the cloud for a moment to gather up fresh strength, and then came rushing down, right upon the rock, which it sent flying in all directions, and took the wolverine’s coat so neatly that, though it was torn into tiny shreds, the wolverine himself was quite unharmed. 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 90

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So the lightning disappeared into the cloud for a moment to gather up fresh strength, and then came rushing down, right upon the rock, which it sent flying in all directions, and took the wolverine’s coat so neatly that, though it was torn into tiny shreds, the wolverine himself was quite unharmed.

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**Who acts:** lightning, strength, rock, Wolverine · **What happens:** disappear, gather up, come, rush down, send, fly · **To what, where:** cloud, fresh strength, rock, directions, coat, tiny shreds

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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 (lightning, strength, rock, Wolverine), 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:pg3282:16:90
# text = So the lightning disappeared into the cloud for a moment to gather up fresh strength, and then came rushing down, right upon the rock, which it sent flying in all directions, and took the wolverine’s coat so neatly that, though it was torn into tiny shreds, the wolverine himself was quite unharmed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	shreds	shred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
56	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	59	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | the lightning |  |  | the cloud | moment |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather up** | to-infinitive | the lightning *not said here* | fresh strength |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the lightning *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rush down** | gerund | the lightning *not said here* |  |  | the rock |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory |
| 5 | **send** | past | strength | the rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund | the rock *not said here* |  |  | all directions |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 7 | **take** | past |  | the wolverine's coat |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument coat=Theme that=Destination |
| 8 | **tear** | past · passive |  | coat |  |  |  | into tiny shreds *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into shred=Result |
| 9 | **is** | past | Wolverine | the wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  | unharmed *property* | 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:** «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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