--- title: Instead of two or three hundred inches of rain falling, which they w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Instead of two or three hundred inches of rain falling, which they were all accustomed to, month after month passed without a cloud, and the rivers and springs dried up, till there was only one small pool left for everyone to drink from. Who acts: rain, one small pool. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/) / 32 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 32 Instead of two or three hundred inches of rain falling, which they were all accustomed to, month after month passed without a cloud, and the rivers and springs dried up, till there was only one small pool left for everyone to drink from. **Who acts:** rain, one small pool · **What happens:** fall, accustom, pass, dry up, be, leave · **To what, where:** rivers, one small pool This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, one small pool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:36:32 # text = Instead of two or three hundred inches of rain falling, which they were all accustomed to, month after month passed without a cloud, and the rivers and springs dried up, till there was only one small pool left for everyone to drink from. 1 Instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 7 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 all all ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 springs spring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 parataxis _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 till till SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 37 expl _ _ 37 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 40 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 42 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 42 obl:agent _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl _ _ 47 from from ADP IN _ 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | rain and month after month *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **accustom** | past · passive | | | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | past | | | | | | instead hundred inches of rain and month after month; without a cloud | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dry up** | participle · passive | | the rivers and springs | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 5 | **be** | past | one small pool | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | one small pool *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **drink** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/33/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)