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title: When a great storm broke, and the earth was white with hail, she bec… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When a great storm broke, and the earth was white with hail, she became bright and joyous as the Snowflake of old; but when the clouds passed, and the hail melted beneath the sun, Snowflake would burst into tears and weep as a sister would weep over her brother. Who acts: great storm, earth, storm, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 54

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When a great storm broke, and the earth was white with hail, she became bright and joyous as the Snowflake of old; but when the clouds passed, and the hail melted beneath the sun, Snowflake would burst into tears and weep as a sister would weep over her brother.

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**Who acts:** great storm, earth, storm, clouds, hail, sister · **What happens:** break, be, become, pass, melt, burst · **To what, where:** hail, tears

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great storm, earth, storm, clouds), 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:pg5615:16:54
# text = When a great storm broke, and the earth was white with hail, she became bright and joyous as the Snowflake of old; but when the clouds passed, and the hail melted beneath the sun, Snowflake would burst into tears and weep as a sister would weep over her brother.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
35	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
40	Snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
52	over	over	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | a great storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the earth |  |  |  |  | with hail; white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | storm |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pass** | past | the clouds |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **melt** | participle |  | the hail *not said here* |  |  |  | beneath the sun | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **burst** | would | the hail |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **weep** | infinitive | the hail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **weep** | would | a sister |  |  |  |  | over sister's brother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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