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title: And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned down they were put out one after the other, and then the children had permission to plunder the Tree. Who acts: lights, children. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and t
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 101

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And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned down they were put out one after the other, and then the children had permission to plunder the Tree.

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**Who acts:** lights, children · **What happens:** burn down, put out, have, plunder · **To what, where:** lights, permission, Tree

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lights, children), 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:pg1597:10:101
# text = And the lights burned down to the very branches, and as they burned down they were put out one after the other, and then the children had permission to plunder the Tree.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	plunder	plunder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn down** | past | the lights |  |  |  |  | to the branches; down *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn down** | past | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put out** | past · passive |  | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset one=Goal |
| 4 | **have** | past | the children | permission |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient |
| 5 | **plunder** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | the Tree |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Source |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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