The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 84
Presently a storm arose; the lightning flashed, the thunder roared, the rain fell in torrents.
Who acts: storm arose, thunder, rain · What happens: flash, roar, fall · To what, where: torrents
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm arose, thunder, rain), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 arose | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 arose | det |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | compound |
| 4 | arose | arose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashed | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 flashed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashed | nsubj |
| 8 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roared | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thunder | det |
| 11 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roared | nsubj |
| 12 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flashed | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rain | det |
| 15 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 roared | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 torrents | case |
| 18 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | a storm arose | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar | past | the thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the rain | torrents | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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