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title: As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose wi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose without, and the rain streamed down from heaven; but the old poet sat warm and comfortable in his chimney-corner, where the fire blazed and the roasting apple hissed. Who acts: he, dreadful storm, old poet, fire. A sentence of «Anders
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 2

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As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose without, and the rain streamed down from heaven; but the old poet sat warm and comfortable in his chimney-corner, where the fire blazed and the roasting apple hissed.

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**Who acts:** he, dreadful storm, old poet, fire, roasting apple · **What happens:** sit, arise, stream down, blaze, roast, hiss · **To what, where:** room, rain, heaven, chimney corner

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, dreadful storm, old poet, fire), 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:pg1597:26:2
# text = As he was sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose without, and the rain streamed down from heaven; but the old poet sat warm and comfortable in his chimney-corner, where the fire blazed and the roasting apple hissed.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
30	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	42	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	amod	_	_
46	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | he |  |  | his room | evening |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a dreadful storm | the rain |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stream down** | participle |  | the rain *not said here* |  | heaven |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from heaven=Source |
| 4 | **sit** | past | the old poet |  |  | storm's chimney corner |  | warm *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 5 | **blaze** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **roast** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **hiss** | past | the roasting apple |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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