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title: At this the witch became so furious that she danced about and knocke… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the witch became so furious that she danced about and knocked everything to pieces that she could lay her hands upon, so that the splinters flew about the ears of the prince and princess, who now stood there in her own beautiful shape. Who acts: witch, splinters, princess. A sentence of «The
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 46

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At this the witch became so furious that she danced about and knocked everything to pieces that she could lay her hands upon, so that the splinters flew about the ears of the prince and princess, who now stood there in her own beautiful shape.

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**Who acts:** witch, splinters, princess · **What happens:** become, dance, knock, lay, fly, stand · **To what, where:** this, everything, pieces, hands, own beautiful shape

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, splinters, princess), 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:pg5615:26:46
# text = At this the witch became so furious that she danced about and knocked everything to pieces that she could lay her hands upon, so that the splinters flew about the ears of the prince and princess, who now stood there in her own beautiful shape.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	splinters	splinter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the witch |  |  | this |  | furious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dance** | past | witch |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **knock** | past | the witch *not said here* | everything |  | pieces |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to piece=Destination |
| 4 | **lay** | could | witch | witch's hands |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result |
| 5 | **fly** | past | the splinters |  |  |  |  | about the ears of the prince and princess | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=Location |
| 6 | **stand** | past | princess |  |  | witch's own beautiful shape; there | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shape=Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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