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title: Amidst the fire lay an egg, red hot, which presently burst with a lo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Amidst the fire lay an egg, red hot, which presently burst with a loud report, and out flew a young bird. Who acts: Amidst. 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 117

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Amidst the fire lay an egg, red hot, which presently burst with a loud report, and out flew a young bird.

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**Who acts:** Amidst · **What happens:** lie, burst, fly · **To what, where:** egg, young bird

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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 (Amidst), 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:pg27200:140:117
# text = Amidst the fire lay an egg, red hot, which presently burst with a loud report, and out flew a young bird.
1	Amidst	Amidst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	burst	burst	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Amidst | a egg |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** | present | Amidst *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a loud report; presently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent which=Patient with report=Instrument |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Amidst *not said here* | a young bird |  |  |  | out *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme |

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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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