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title: And wherever it was clear the rain pelted down and the cold March wi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And wherever it was clear the rain pelted down and the cold March wind howled along. Who acts: rain, cold wind. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 4

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And wherever it was clear the rain pelted down and the cold March wind howled along.

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**Who acts:** rain, cold wind · **What happens:** be, pelt down, howl · **To what, where:** rain

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, cold wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7885:29:4
# text = And wherever it was clear the rain pelted down and the cold March wind howled along.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	pelted	pelt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	along	along	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rain |  |  |  |  | clear, wherever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pelt down** | participle |  | the rain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **howl** | past | the cold wind  March |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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