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title: The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more po… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more powder on to the fire, he said something, and the stone rolled back into its place. Who acts: magician, stone. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 37

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The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more powder on to the fire, he said something, and the stone rolled back into its place.

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**Who acts:** magician, stone · **What happens:** fly, throw, say, roll back · **To what, where:** terrible passion, more powder, fire, something, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, stone), 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:pg503:12:37
# text = The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more powder on to the fire, he said something, and the stone rolled back into its place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the magician |  |  |  |  | into a terrible passion *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | the magician *not said here* | some more powder |  | the fire |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent powder=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | magician | something |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **roll back** | past | the stone |  |  | stone's place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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