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title: But his fury was vain, the thunderclouds melted away into a soft mis… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But his fury was vain, the thunderclouds melted away into a soft mist, and the gnome, after flying about for a while in despair, bewailing to the four winds his unhappy fate, went sorrowfully back to the palace, and stole once more through every room, with many sighs and lamentations. Who acts: fury
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 59

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But his fury was vain, the thunderclouds melted away into a soft mist, and the gnome, after flying about for a while in despair, bewailing to the four winds his unhappy fate, went sorrowfully back to the palace, and stole once more through every room, with many sighs and lamentations.

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**Who acts:** fury, thunderclouds, four, head · **What happens:** be, melt away, fly, bewail, wind, go · **To what, where:** soft mist, unhappy fate, palace, room

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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: who acts (fury, thunderclouds, four, head), 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:pg3282:32:59
# text = But his fury was vain, the thunderclouds melted away into a soft mist, and the gnome, after flying about for a while in despair, bewailing to the four winds his unhappy fate, went sorrowfully back to the palace, and stole once more through every room, with many sighs and lamentations.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunderclouds	thundercloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	bewailing	bewail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
33	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
39	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
47	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	48	advmod	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	_
49	through	through	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	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 | head's fury |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **melt away** | past | the thunderclouds |  |  | a soft mist |  | away *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into mist=Product |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the thunderclouds *not said here* |  |  |  | while | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bewail** | gerund | the thunderclouds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wind** | present | the four | head's unhappy fate |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fate=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | past | the thunderclouds *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **steal** | past |  |  |  | every room |  | with many sighs and lamentations | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Location |
| 8 | **infuriate** |  | head |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **fate** |  | head |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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:** «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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