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title: A dreadful storm came on, in which he lost his way, and before he co… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A dreadful storm came on, in which he lost his way, and before he could get on to the right road night came on, and it was impossible to reach the town that evening. Who acts: dreadful storm, storm, Klaus. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 20

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A dreadful storm came on, in which he lost his way, and before he could get on to the right road night came on, and it was impossible to reach the town that evening.

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**Who acts:** dreadful storm, storm, Klaus · **What happens:** come on, lose, get on, be, reach · **To what, where:** way, town

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful storm, storm, Klaus), 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:pg640:41:20
# text = A dreadful storm came on, in which he lost his way, and before he could get on to the right road night came on, and it was impossible to reach the town that evening.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	expl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	csubj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 dreadful storm |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past | storm | Klaus's way |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get on** | could | Klaus |  |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come on** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | the town |  |  | evening |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=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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