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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 59

The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper shape and tore about the room, raging and storming and flinging the beautiful silk on the floor.

Who acts: witch · What happens: leave, resume, rage, storm, fling · To what, where: prince, proper shape, beautiful silk, floor

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

detnsubj:passauxadvmodobjmarkdetnsubjadvclnmod:possamodobjccconjcasedetnmodpunctadvclccconjccconjdetamodobjcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETprinceNOUNhadAUXhardlyADVleftVERBherPRONbeforeSCONJtheDETwitchNOUNresumedVERBherPRONproperADJshapeNOUNandCCONJtoreNOUNaboutADPtheDETroomNOUN,PUNCTragingVERBandCCONJstormingVERBandCCONJflingingVERBtheDETbeautifulADJsilkNOUNonADPtheDETfloorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 princedet
2princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing5 leftnsubj:pass
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 leftaux
4hardlyhardlyADV_5 leftadvmod
5leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 leftobj
7beforebeforeSCONJ_10 resumedmark
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 witchdet
9witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing10 resumednsubj
10resumedresumeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 leftadvcl
11herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 shapenmod:poss
12properproperADJDegree=Pos13 shapeamod
13shapeshapeNOUNNumber=Sing10 resumedobj
14andandCCONJ_15 torecc
15toretoreNOUNNumber=Sing13 shapeconj
16aboutaboutADP_18 roomcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 roomdet
18roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing15 torenmod
19,,PUNCT_20 ragingpunct
20ragingrageVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 resumedadvcl
21andandCCONJ_22 stormingcc
22stormingstormVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 ragingconj
23andandCCONJ_24 flingingcc
24flingingflingVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 ragingconj
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 silkdet
26beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos27 silkamod
27silksilkNOUNNumber=Sing24 flingingobj
28ononADP_30 floorcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 floordet
30floorfloorNOUNNumber=Sing24 flingingobl
31..PUNCT_5 leftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leavepast · perfect · passivethe princehardly propertyvn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
2resumepastthe witchSigny's proper shape and tore about the roomvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality
3ragegerundthe witch not said herevn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4stormgerundthe witch not said herevn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5flinggerundthe witch not said herethe beautiful silkthe floorvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent silk=Theme on floor=Destination

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.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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