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title: Then the old troll-hag flew into such a rage that she burst, and the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the old troll-hag flew into such a rage that she burst, and the Princess with the long nose and all the little trolls must have burst too, for they have never been heard of since. Who acts: old troll hag, larger. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 156

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Then the old troll-hag flew into such a rage that she burst, and the Princess with the long nose and all the little trolls must have burst too, for they have never been heard of since.

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**Who acts:** old troll hag, larger · **What happens:** fly, burst, not hear · **To what, where:** rage, Princess, hag

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old troll hag, larger), 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:pg503:4:156
# text = Then the old troll-hag flew into such a rage that she burst, and the Princess with the long nose and all the little trolls must have burst too, for they have never been heard of since.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	burst	burst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	since	since	ADV	RB	_	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the old troll hag |  |  |  | then | into such rage *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |
| 2 | **burst** | past | larger *= large* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | must · perfect · passive |  | the Princess with the long nose and all little trolls |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | present · perfect · passive |  | hag |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: 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 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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