--- title: His songs were listened to in the tavern, where the tallow candles f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: His songs were listened to in the tavern, where the tallow candles flared, in the fresh clover field, in the forest, and on the high-seas; and it appeared as if this brother was to be more fortunate than the other two. Who acts: tallow candles, it, brother, poet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/133/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/) / 133 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 133 His songs were listened to in the tavern, where the tallow candles flared, in the fresh clover field, in the forest, and on the high-seas; and it appeared as if this brother was to be more fortunate than the other two. **Who acts:** tallow candles, it, brother, poet · **What happens:** listen, flare, appear, be, sing · **To what, where:** songs, fresh clover field, high seas This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tallow candles, it, brother, poet), 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:pg27200:143:133 # text = His songs were listened to in the tavern, where the tallow candles flared, in the fresh clover field, in the forest, and on the high-seas; and it appeared as if this brother was to be more fortunate than the other two. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 listened listen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tavern tavern NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tallow tallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 flared flare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 37 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 43 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ _ 44 fortunate fortunate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 45 than than ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | past · passive | | poet's songs | | | | to the tavern | tree rules | | 2 | **flare** | past | the tallow candles | the fresh clover field and the forest | | the high seas | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | past | it | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | this brother | | | | | than the other two; fortunate *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sing** | | poet | | | | | | nom song «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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/134/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)