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title: Then the witch flew into a great rage, and screamed out, ‘What! you’… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the witch flew into a great rage, and screamed out, ‘What! you’ll kill my dog, will you?’ and the next moment he was turned to stone and lay there immovable, whilst his bride waited for him in vain and thought to herself, ‘Alas! no doubt the evil I feared, and which has made my heart so heavy, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 77

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Then the witch flew into a great rage, and screamed out, ‘What! you’ll kill my dog, will you?’ and the next moment he was turned to stone and lay there immovable, whilst his bride waited for him in vain and thought to herself, ‘Alas! no doubt the evil I feared, and which has made my heart so heavy, has befallen him.’

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**Who acts:** witch, bride, doubt · **What happens:** fly, scream out, kill, turn, lay, wait · **To what, where:** great rage, dog, next moment, stone, immovable, vain

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, bride, doubt), 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:pg7277:49:77
# text = Then the witch flew into a great rage, and screamed out, ‘What! you’ll kill my dog, will you?’ and the next moment he was turned to stone and lay there immovable, whilst his bride waited for him in vain and thought to herself, ‘Alas! no doubt the evil I feared, and which has made my heart so heavy, has befallen him.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	screamed	scream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
38	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	immovable	immovable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
54	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	62	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	_
57	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	58	det	_	_
58	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
61	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
65	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	67	nsubj:pass	_	_
66	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	67	aux	_	_
67	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
68	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	_
70	so	so	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
71	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
73	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	74	aux	_	_
74	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
75	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	74	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the witch |  |  |  | then | into a great rage *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |
| 2 | **scream out** *speech: express* | participle | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kill** | future |  | my dog |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the next moment |  | stone |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lay** | infinitive |  | there's immovable |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immovable=Result |
| 6 | **wait** | past | dog's bride |  |  | vain |  | for dog | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  |  | bride |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fear** | past | no doubt |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | my heart |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary heart=Product |
| 10 | **befall** | present · perfect | the witch *not said here* | dog |  |  |  |  | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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