--- title: And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightni… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground. Who acts: Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/108/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/) / 108 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 108 And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground. **Who acts:** Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse, thunder · **What happens:** journey, come, seek, find, save, lay · **To what, where:** shelter, old graveyard, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:20:108 # text = And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 journeyed journey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 18 mark _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 24 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 graveyard graveyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 headless headless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 corpse corpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **journey** | past | Rasalu | | | there | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | a fierce storm of thunder and lightning | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **seek** | past | Rasalu | shelter | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | a fierce storm of thunder and lightning *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **save** | infinitive | none | a old graveyard | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graveyard=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | present | a headless corpse | | | the ground | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination | | 7 | **storm** | | thunder and lightning | | | | | | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/109/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)