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title: Furiously did the enraged gnome fling two great clouds together, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Furiously did the enraged gnome fling two great clouds together, and hurl a thunderbolt after the flying maiden, splintering the rocky barriers which had stood a thousand years. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 58

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Furiously did the enraged gnome fling two great clouds together, and hurl a thunderbolt after the flying maiden, splintering the rocky barriers which had stood a thousand years.

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**What happens:** do, enrage, hurl, fly, splinter, stand · **To what, where:** enraged gnome fling, thunderbolt, rocky barriers

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3282:32:58
# text = Furiously did the enraged gnome fling two great clouds together, and hurl a thunderbolt after the flying maiden, splintering the rocky barriers which had stood a thousand years.
1	Furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hurl	hurl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	splintering	splinter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	barriers	barrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the enraged gnome fling  two great clouds |  |  |  | furiously, together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fling=Eventuality |
| 2 | **enrage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hurl** | infinitive |  | a thunderbolt |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunderbolt=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **splinter** | gerund |  | the rocky barriers |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrier=Patient |
| 6 | **stand** | past · perfect · passive |  | the rocky barriers |  |  | year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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