--- title: They played at 'the stick burns,' and the young poets played at 'hea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They played at 'the stick burns,' and the young poets played at 'heart-burns,' and the witlings played off their jests, and the jests rolled away with a thundering sound, as if empty pots were being shattered against doors. ' Who acts: sparks, stick, witlings, jests. 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' **Who acts:** sparks, stick, witlings, jests · **What happens:** play, burn, play off, roll away, thunder, shatter · **To what, where:** young poets, heart burns, jests, empty pots This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparks, stick, witlings, jests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:136:35 # text = They played at 'the stick burns,' and the young poets played at 'heart-burns,' and the witlings played off their jests, and the jests rolled away with a thundering sound, as if empty pots were being shattered against doors. ' 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 burns burn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 witlings witling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 jests jest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 jests jest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 thundering thunder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 42 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 45 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 aux:pass _ _ 46 shattered shatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 47 against against ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | past | sparks *= spark* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **burn** | present | the stick | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **play** | participle | | the young poets *not said here* | | heart burns | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play off** | past | the witlings | sparks's jests | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jest=Theme | | 5 | **roll away** | past | the jests | | | | | with a thundering sound; away *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sound=Theme | | 6 | **thunder** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **shatter** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | empty pots | | | | against doors | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **jest** | | sparks *= spark* | | | | | | nom jest «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/36/) - ↑ back to [First Visit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/136/)