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title: Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torches. Who acts: bright blaze, ruddy gleams, fire. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortu
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 46

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Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torches.

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**Who acts:** bright blaze, ruddy gleams, fire · **What happens:** hear, shoot up, seem, contend, blaze, light · **To what, where:** sound, torches

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright blaze, ruddy gleams, 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:pg1597:5:46
# text = Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes; the bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time, and its ruddy gleams seemed to contend with the bluish light of the torches.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fifes	fife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	gleams	gleam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	bluish	bluish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the sound of drums and fifes |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shoot up** | past | the bright blaze of a fire |  |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | blaze's ruddy gleams |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **contend** | to-infinitive | blaze's ruddy gleams *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the bluish light of the torches | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with light=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **blaze** |  | a fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **light** |  |  | the torches |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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