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title: On the eighth night a fearful storm of wind and rain came on while t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the eighth night a fearful storm of wind and rain came on while the Herd-boy was on his way to bring the beautiful girl another bag of gold. Who acts: fearful storm, Herd boy, wind. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 95

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On the eighth night a fearful storm of wind and rain came on while the Herd-boy was on his way to bring the beautiful girl another bag of gold.

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**Who acts:** fearful storm, Herd boy, wind · **What happens:** come on, be, bring, storm · **To what, where:** way, bag, beautiful girl

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (fearful storm, Herd boy, wind), 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:pg640:15:95
# text = On the eighth night a fearful storm of wind and rain came on while the Herd-boy was on his way to bring the beautiful girl another bag of gold.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | a fearful storm of wind and rain |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Herd boy |  |  | BOY's way |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a fearful storm of wind and rain *not said here* | another bag of gold | the beautiful girl |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent girl=Destination bag=Theme |
| 4 | **storm** |  | wind and rain |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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