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title: After the thunder will come hail, so fierce that scarcely canst thou… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the thunder will come hail, so fierce that scarcely canst thou endure it and live, for the hailstones are both large and thick. Who acts: thunder, thou, hailstones. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 43

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After the thunder will come hail, so fierce that scarcely canst thou endure it and live, for the hailstones are both large and thick.

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**Who acts:** thunder, thou, hailstones · **What happens:** come, endure, live, be · **To what, where:** hail, thunder

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (thunder, thou, hailstones), 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:pg3454:30:43
# text = After the thunder will come hail, so fierce that scarcely canst thou endure it and live, for the hailstones are both large and thick.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	both	both	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | the thunder | hail |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hail=Theme |
| 2 | **endure** | can | thou | thunder |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the hailstones |  |  |  |  | both, large *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the hailstones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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