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title: The hut belonged to an old crone, who was also an ill-tempered and m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The hut belonged to an old crone, who was also an ill-tempered and malicious troll. Who acts: hut. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 38

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The hut belonged to an old crone, who was also an ill-tempered and malicious troll.

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**Who acts:** hut · **What happens:** belong, temper · **To what, where:** old crone

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hut), 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:pg503:18:38
# text = The hut belonged to an old crone, who was also an ill-tempered and malicious troll.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crone	crone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	malicious	malicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the hut |  |  |  |  | to a old crone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **temper** | past · passive |  | a old crone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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