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title: The dry twigs around the nest crackled and smoked till the flames bu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dry twigs around the nest crackled and smoked till the flames burst forth and consumed the phoenix to ashes. Who acts: dry twigs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 116

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The dry twigs around the nest crackled and smoked till the flames burst forth and consumed the phoenix to ashes.

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**Who acts:** dry twigs · **What happens:** crackle, smoke, burst, consume · **To what, where:** dry twigs, phoenix

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dry twigs), 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:pg27200:140:116
# text = The dry twigs around the nest crackled and smoked till the flames burst forth and consumed the phoenix to ashes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	crackled	crackle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crackle** | participle |  | the dry twigs around the nest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smoke** | participle |  |  |  |  | till the flames |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burst** | present | the dry twigs around the nest |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **consume** | past | the dry twigs around the nest *not said here* | the phoenix |  |  |  | to ashes | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phoenix=Asset |

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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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