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title: The thunder crashed, and the lightning seemed as if it must burn up… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The thunder crashed, and the lightning seemed as if it must burn up everything; the two basilisks appeared, one on each side of the bad Dwarf, like giants, mountains high, and fire flew from their mouths and ears, until they looked like flaming furnaces. Who acts: thunder, lightning, two basilisks, 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 55

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The thunder crashed, and the lightning seemed as if it must burn up everything; the two basilisks appeared, one on each side of the bad Dwarf, like giants, mountains high, and fire flew from their mouths and ears, until they looked like flaming furnaces.

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**Who acts:** thunder, lightning, two basilisks, fire, basilisks · **What happens:** crash, seem, burn up, appear, fly, look · **To what, where:** everything, one, side, mouths

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunder, lightning, two basilisks, fire), 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:pg503:6:55
# text = The thunder crashed, and the lightning seemed as if it must burn up everything; the two basilisks appeared, one on each side of the bad Dwarf, like giants, mountains high, and fire flew from their mouths and ears, until they looked like flaming furnaces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	basilisks	basilisk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	amod	_	_
51	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | past | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **burn up** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | lightning | everything |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **appear** | past | the two basilisks | one |  | each side of the bad Dwarf |  | like giants | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | past | fire |  |  | basilisks's mouths and ears |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory |
| 6 | **look** | past | basilisks *= basilisk* |  |  |  |  | like flaming furnaces | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **flame** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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