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title: A great fire gleamed on the hearth, and roasting and boiling was goi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A great fire gleamed on the hearth, and roasting and boiling was going on there; without, under the citron trees and laurels, stood a few covered tables. Who acts: roasting, great fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 120

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A great fire gleamed on the hearth, and roasting and boiling was going on there; without, under the citron trees and laurels, stood a few covered tables.

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**Who acts:** roasting, great fire · **What happens:** gleam, go, stand, cover · **To what, where:** great fire, hearth, few covered tables

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roasting, great 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:pg27200:151:120
# text = A great fire gleamed on the hearth, and roasting and boiling was going on there; without, under the citron trees and laurels, stood a few covered tables.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
4	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	roasting	roasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	citron	citron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	laurels	laurel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | participle |  | a great fire and the citron trees and laurels *not said here* |  | the hearth |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | roasting and boiling |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on there=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past | a great fire and the citron trees and laurels | a few covered tables |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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