--- title: At once the room was darkened, and the house trembled; a clap of thu… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At once the room was darkened, and the house trembled; a clap of thunder rolled through the passage and the old room, and there stood before him a horrible, horrible form, breathing fire, and with eyes like burning lamps. Who acts: house. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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:pg7439:18:12 # text = At once the room was darkened, and the house trembled; a clap of thunder rolled through the passage and the old room, and there stood before him a horrible, horrible form, breathing fire, and with eyes like burning lamps. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 darkened darken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 trembled tremble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 clap clap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 38 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 amod _ _ 45 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **darken** | past · passive | | the room | | | | a clap of thunder *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **tremble** | past | the house | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **roll** | participle | | a clap of thunder *not said here* | | the passage and the old room | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through passage=Trajectory | | 4 | **stand** | past | | a horrible horrible form | | there | before house | with eyes like burning lamps | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme before he=Destination | | 5 | **breathe** | gerund | | fire | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 6 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **clap** | | | thunder | | | | | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/18/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/18/13/) - ↑ back to [The Master and His Pupil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/18/)