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title: The rain beats against the windows of the convent as if it would for… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The rain beats against the windows of the convent as if it would force an entrance, flashes of lightning illuminate the night, and the thunder shakes the old building in its fury, as if it would uproot its very foundations. Who acts: rain, flashes, thunder, lightning. A sentence of «Legends and tale
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 105

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The rain beats against the windows of the convent as if it would force an entrance, flashes of lightning illuminate the night, and the thunder shakes the old building in its fury, as if it would uproot its very foundations.

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**Who acts:** rain, flashes, thunder, lightning · **What happens:** beat, force, illuminate, shake, uproot, flash · **To what, where:** windows, entrance, old building, fury, foundations

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., 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 (rain, flashes, thunder, lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:19:105
# text = The rain beats against the windows of the convent as if it would force an entrance, flashes of lightning illuminate the night, and the thunder shakes the old building in its fury, as if it would uproot its very foundations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	illuminate	illuminate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	uproot	uproot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | the rain |  |  | the windows of the convent |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against window=Location |
| 2 | **force** | would | rain | a entrance |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Recipient |
| 3 | **illuminate** | infinitive | flashes of lightning |  |  |  | night |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shake** | present | the thunder | the old building |  | thunder's fury |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent building=Theme in fury=Trajectory |
| 5 | **uproot** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | rain | thunder's foundations |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme |
| 6 | **flash** |  | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **infuriate** |  | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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