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title: At this the witch became so furious that she sprang into numberless… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the witch became so furious that she sprang into numberless pieces of flint, and from this come all the flint stones that one finds about the country. Who acts: witch, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 91

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At this the witch became so furious that she sprang into numberless pieces of flint, and from this come all the flint stones that one finds about the country.

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**Who acts:** witch, one · **What happens:** become, spring, come, find · **To what, where:** numberless pieces, flint stones, this

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, one), 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:pg5615:29:91
# text = At this the witch became so furious that she sprang into numberless pieces of flint, and from this come all the flint stones that one finds about the country.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
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	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	numberless	numberless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
27	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	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 | this witch |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spring** | past | witch |  |  | numberless pieces of flint |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into piece=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | this witch *not said here* | all flint stones |  | this |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present | one |  |  |  |  | about the country | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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