The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 52

Thereupon the thunder came, louder by far than I had expected to hear it, and after the thunder came the shower, but heavier by far than I had expected to feel it, for, of a truth I tell thee, Kai, not one of those hailstones would be stopped by skin or by flesh till it had reached the bone.

Who acts: thunder, I, skin · What happens: come, expect, hear, feel, tell, stop · To what, where: I, thunder, shower, thee, Kai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunder, I, skin), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thunder	det
3	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 louder	punct
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 came	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 far	case
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 louder	obl
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 expected	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 expected	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 expected	aux
12	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 louder	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hear	mark
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 expected	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thunder	det
20	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shower	det
23	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heavier	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 heavier	cc
26	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 came	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 far	case
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 heavier	obl
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 expected	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 expected	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 expected	aux
32	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 heavier	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 feel	mark
34	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 expected	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 feel	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tell	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 tell	mark
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tell	punct
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 truth	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 truth	det
41	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 tell	obl
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 tell	nsubj
43	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 expected	parataxis
44	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 tell	iobj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Kai	punct
46	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 stopped	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 one	punct
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 one	advmod
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 Kai	appos
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 hailstones	case
51	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	52 hailstones	det
52	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 one	nmod
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 stopped	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 stopped	aux:pass
55	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 tell	ccomp
56	by	by	ADP	_	57 skin	case
57	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 stopped	obl
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	60 flesh	cc
59	by	by	ADP	_	60 flesh	case
60	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 skin	conj
61	till	till	SCONJ	_	64 reached	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 reached	nsubj:pass
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 reached	aux
64	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 stopped	advcl
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 bone	det
66	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 reached	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the thunder			thereupon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	expect	past · perfect · passive		I			tree rules
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	thunder			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	come	past	the thunder				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	expect	past · perfect · passive		I			tree rules
6	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	shower			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	present	I		thee	of a truth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic
8	stop	would · passive	skin or flesh	Kai			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality
9	reach	past · perfect · passive		thunder			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary bone=Theme

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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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