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title: In the night the red flames burst through the window and seized the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the night the red flames burst through the window and seized the roof, the dry straw blazed up high, and the whole house, together with the young sparrow, was burned. Who acts: red flames. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 106

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In the night the red flames burst through the window and seized the roof, the dry straw blazed up high, and the whole house, together with the young sparrow, was burned.

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**Who acts:** red flames · **What happens:** burst, seize, blaze up, burn · **To what, where:** window, roof, dry straw

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red flames), 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:pg27200:124:106
# text = In the night the red flames burst through the window and seized the roof, the dry straw blazed up high, and the whole house, together with the young sparrow, was burned.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | present | the red flames |  |  | the window | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 2 | **seize** | past | the red flames *not said here* | the roof and the dry straw |  |  |  | with the young sparrow; the whole house *obl*; together *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme |
| 3 | **blaze up** | participle |  | the dry straw *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burn** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V» |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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