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title: In the middle of the cave an immense fire was burning, and a noble s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the cave an immense fire was burning, and a noble stag, with its branching horns, was placed on a spit between the trunks of two pine-trees. Who acts: immense fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 12

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In the middle of the cave an immense fire was burning, and a noble stag, with its branching horns, was placed on a spit between the trunks of two pine-trees.

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**Who acts:** immense fire · **What happens:** burn, place · **To what, where:** middle, noble stag, spit

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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 (immense 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:pg27200:140:12
# text = In the middle of the cave an immense fire was burning, and a noble stag, with its branching horns, was placed on a spit between the trunks of two pine-trees.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	branching	branching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
33	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · progressive | a immense fire |  |  | the middle of the cave |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 2 | **place** | past · passive |  | a noble stag |  | a spit between the trunks of two pine trees |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on spit=Destination |

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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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