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title: Presently a storm arose; the lightning flashed, the thunder roared,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently a storm arose; the lightning flashed, the thunder roared, the rain fell in torrents. Who acts: storm arose, thunder, rain. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 84

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Presently a storm arose; the lightning flashed, the thunder roared, the rain fell in torrents.

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**Who acts:** storm arose, thunder, rain · **What happens:** flash, roar, fall · **To what, where:** torrents

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm arose, thunder, rain), 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:pg540:13:84
# text = Presently a storm arose; the lightning flashed, the thunder roared, the rain fell in torrents.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	arose	arose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past | a storm arose |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roar** | past | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the rain |  |  | torrents |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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