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title: Even out of the ash-bin the blossom of memory peeped forth, for Emil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Even out of the ash-bin the blossom of memory peeped forth, for Emily had sat whimpering there on the day when the window-curtain caught fire, and George arrived in the character of fire engine. Who acts: Emily, window curtain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 43

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Even out of the ash-bin the blossom of memory peeped forth, for Emily had sat whimpering there on the day when the window-curtain caught fire, and George arrived in the character of fire engine.

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**Who acts:** Emily, window curtain · **What happens:** peep, sit, whimper, catch, arrive · **To what, where:** memory, fire, character

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emily, window curtain), 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:pg27200:148:43
# text = Even out of the ash-bin the blossom of memory peeped forth, for Emily had sat whimpering there on the day when the window-curtain caught fire, and George arrived in the character of fire engine.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
19	whimpering	whimper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
29	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | participle |  | memory *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past · perfect | Emily |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **whimper** | gerund | Emily *not said here* |  |  | there | day |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **catch** | participle | the window curtain *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | the window curtain |  |  | the character of fire engine |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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