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title: In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 22

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In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor.

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**What happens:** smoke, burnt · **To what, where:** great fire, midst

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:14:22
# text = In the midst of the large, old, smoking hall burnt a great fire on the stone floor.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burnt** | past |  | a great fire |  | the midst of the large smoking hall |  | on the stone floor | 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:** «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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