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title: Then the storm wind howled louder, the earth trembled more violently… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the storm wind howled louder, the earth trembled more violently, and the night grew darker, than the first time, and the Welwa of the silver wood came rushing on with seven times the speed of the other. Who acts: storm wind, earth, night, Welwa. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew L
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 41

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Then the storm wind howled louder, the earth trembled more violently, and the night grew darker, than the first time, and the Welwa of the silver wood came rushing on with seven times the speed of the other.

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**Who acts:** storm wind, earth, night, Welwa · **What happens:** howl, tremble, grow, come, rush on

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (storm wind, earth, night, Welwa), 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:pg641:20:41
# text = Then the storm wind howled louder, the earth trembled more violently, and the night grew darker, than the first time, and the Welwa of the silver wood came rushing on with seven times the speed of the other.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	louder	loud	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | past | the storm wind |  |  |  | then | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tremble** | past | the earth |  |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the night |  |  |  | time | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | the Welwa of the silver wood |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rush on** | gerund | the Welwa of the silver wood *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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