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title: In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were b… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit. 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 24

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In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit.

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**What happens:** boil, roast · **To what, where:** rabbits

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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:pg1597:14:24
# text = In an immense caldron soup was boiling; and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | in a immense caldron soup | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in soup=Instrument |
| 2 | **roast** | past · passive |  | rabbits and hares |  |  |  | on a spit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on spit=Instrument |

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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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