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title: The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper shape and tore about the room, raging and storming and flinging the beautiful silk on the floor. Who acts: witch. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 59

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The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper shape and tore about the room, raging and storming and flinging the beautiful silk on the floor.

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**Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** leave, resume, rage, storm, fling · **To what, where:** prince, proper shape, beautiful silk, floor

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (witch), 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:pg3282:30:59
# text = The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper shape and tore about the room, raging and storming and flinging the beautiful silk on the floor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tore	tore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	storming	storm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute |
| 2 | **resume** | past | the witch | Signy's proper shape and tore about the room |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rage** | gerund | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **storm** | gerund | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 5 | **fling** | gerund | the witch *not said here* | the beautiful silk |  | the floor |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent silk=Theme on floor=Destination |

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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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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