--- title: As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey escape her; and at the moment she drew her last breath the castle of Albatroz fell into ruins with a great noise. Who acts: dragon, prey, castle. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hear --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/) / 69 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 69 As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey escape her; and at the moment she drew her last breath the castle of Albatroz fell into ruins with a great noise. **Who acts:** dragon, prey, castle · **What happens:** die, see, escape, draw, fall · **To what, where:** prey, dragon, last breath, ruins This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, prey, castle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:38:69 # text = As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey escape her; and at the moment she drew her last breath the castle of Albatroz fell into ruins with a great noise. 1 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 at at SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Albatroz Albatroz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | dragon | | | | in the end | as the old witch; of rage | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in end=Attribute | | 2 | **see** | gerund | dragon *not said here* | dragon's prey | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **escape** | infinitive | dragon's prey *not said here* | dragon | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **draw** | past | dragon | dragon's last breath | | | moment | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | the castle of Albatroz | | | | | into ruins *result*; with a great noise | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ruin=Result | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/70/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/38/)