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title: The lightning flashed, the thunder rattled, fire bolts fell from hea… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lightning flashed, the thunder rattled, fire bolts fell from heaven, burning up the forests and even the fields of corn. Who acts: lightning, fire bolts. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 93

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The lightning flashed, the thunder rattled, fire bolts fell from heaven, burning up the forests and even the fields of corn.

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**Who acts:** lightning, fire bolts · **What happens:** flash, rattle, fall, burn up · **To what, where:** thunder, heaven, forests

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, fire bolts), 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:pg640:17:93
# text = The lightning flashed, the thunder rattled, fire bolts fell from heaven, burning up the forests and even the fields of corn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bolts	bolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past | the lightning | the thunder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rattle** | participle | the lightning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | fire bolts |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **burn up** | gerund | fire bolts *not said here* | the forests and the fields of corn |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=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 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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