--- title: Then comes the thunder-cloud, out of which leaps the bolt; the rains… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then comes the thunder-cloud, out of which leaps the bolt; the rains pour down, the earth receives them, and is covered with abundance--all that was lost is recovered.” Who acts: rains, earth. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/12/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/) / 12 # English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 12 Then comes the thunder-cloud, out of which leaps the bolt; the rains pour down, the earth receives them, and is covered with abundance--all that was lost is recovered.” **Who acts:** rains, earth · **What happens:** come, leap, pour down, receive, cover, lose · **To what, where:** thunder cloud, bolt, showers, that This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rains, earth), 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:pg7439:89:12 # text = Then comes the thunder-cloud, out of which leaps the bolt; the rains pour down, the earth receives them, and is covered with abundance--all that was lost is recovered.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bolt bolt NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 receives receive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 abundance abundance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | | the thunder cloud | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | | 2 | **leap** | present | | the bolt | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bolt=Trajectory | | 3 | **pour down** | present | the rains | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **receive** | present | the earth | showers *= shower* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | present · passive | | | | | | with abundance | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with abundance=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | past · passive | | that | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **recover** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | 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/pg7439/89/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/89/13/) - ↑ back to [XXXIX. 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