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title: It blew so hard and rained so heavily that he could scarcely keep hi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It blew so hard and rained so heavily that he could scarcely keep his eyes open, and before he was aware of it he had got quite out of the track, and could neither find road nor path. Who acts: storm, husbandman. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependenc
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 7

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It blew so hard and rained so heavily that he could scarcely keep his eyes open, and before he was aware of it he had got quite out of the track, and could neither find road nor path.

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**Who acts:** storm, husbandman · **What happens:** blow, rain, keep, be, get, find · **To what, where:** eyes, track, road

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, husbandman), 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:pg540:9:7
# text = It blew so hard and rained so heavily that he could scarcely keep his eyes open, and before he was aware of it he had got quite out of the track, and could neither find road nor path.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rained	rain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
28	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
38	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	40	cc	_	_
40	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | storm |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rain** | past | storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **keep** | could | husbandman | husbandman's eyes |  |  |  | open, scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | husbandman |  |  |  |  | of storm; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | past · perfect | husbandman |  |  | the track |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out track=Destination |
| 6 | **find** | could | husbandman *not said here* | road nor path |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic |

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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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