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title: Meanwhile the storm-clouds had blackened, and a loud clap of thunder… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the storm-clouds had blackened, and a loud clap of thunder rolled over the heads of the parting lovers. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 12

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Meanwhile the storm-clouds had blackened, and a loud clap of thunder rolled over the heads of the parting lovers.

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**What happens:** blacken, roll, clap · **To what, where:** storm clouds, loud clap, heads, thunder

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:4:12
# text = Meanwhile the storm-clouds had blackened, and a loud clap of thunder rolled over the heads of the parting lovers.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	blackened	blacken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clap	clap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blacken** | past · perfect · passive |  | the storm clouds |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | participle · passive |  | a loud clap of thunder |  | the heads of the parting lovers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme over head=Trajectory |
| 3 | **clap** |  |  | thunder |  |  |  |  | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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