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title: By this time the witch was just at their heels, but the princess sto… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time the witch was just at their heels, but the princess stood in the window and blew upon the witch; hundreds of white doves flew out of her mouth, fluttered and flapped around the witch’s head until she grew so angry that she turned into flint, and there she stands to this day, in the shap
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 73

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By this time the witch was just at their heels, but the princess stood in the window and blew upon the witch; hundreds of white doves flew out of her mouth, fluttered and flapped around the witch’s head until she grew so angry that she turned into flint, and there she stands to this day, in the shape of a large flint stone, outside the window.

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**Who acts:** witch, princess, hundreds · **What happens:** be, stand, blow, fly out, flutter, flap · **To what, where:** heels, window, mouth, head, flint, 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, princess, hundreds), 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:pg5615:26:73
# text = By this time the witch was just at their heels, but the princess stood in the window and blew upon the witch; hundreds of white doves flew out of her mouth, fluttered and flapped around the witch’s head until she grew so angry that she turned into flint, and there she stands to this day, in the shape of a large flint stone, outside the window.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	flapped	flap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
38	around	around	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	57	expl	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
67	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
68	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	_
69	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
71	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the witch |  |  | fugitives's heels | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the princess |  |  | the window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location |
| 3 | **blow** | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the witch | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fly out** | past | hundreds of white doves | witch's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 5 | **flutter** | participle | hundreds of white doves *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **flap** | participle | hundreds of white doves *not said here* |  |  | the witch's head |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around head=Location |
| 7 | **grow** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **turn** | past | princess |  |  | flint |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into flint=Trajectory |
| 9 | **stand** | present | princess |  |  | the shape of a large flint stone; there | day | outside the window | 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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