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title: Immediately all happened as before; the thunder and the shower of ha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately all happened as before; the thunder and the shower of hail which killed many of Arthur’s men; the song of the birds and the appearance of the black knight. Who acts: hail, birds. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 42

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Immediately all happened as before; the thunder and the shower of hail which killed many of Arthur’s men; the song of the birds and the appearance of the black knight.

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**Who acts:** hail, birds · **What happens:** happen, kill, sing · **To what, where:** song, many

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail, birds), 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:pg3454:31:42
# text = Immediately all happened as before; the thunder and the shower of hail which killed many of Arthur’s men; the song of the birds and the appearance of the black knight.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  | the song of the birds and the appearance of the black knight |  |  |  | all, before, immediately *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | hail | many of Arthur's men |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** |  | the birds and the appearance of the black knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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