---
title: Then columns of smoke rose into the still air; it was a heath fire,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then columns of smoke rose into the still air; it was a heath fire, they told him--how brightly it blazed in the dark evening! Who acts: columns, barrow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/94/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/) / 94

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 94

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then columns of smoke rose into the still air; it was a heath fire, they told him--how brightly it blazed in the dark evening!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** columns, barrow · **What happens:** rise, be, tell, blaze · **To what, where:** air, heath fire, Jurgen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (columns, barrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:159:94
# text = Then columns of smoke rose into the still air; it was a heath fire, they told him--how brightly it blazed in the dark evening!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | columns of smoke |  |  | the air | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | barrow | a heath fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | columns *= column* |  | Jurgen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **blaze** | past | barrow |  |  |  | evening | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/93/)
- next →: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/95/)
- ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/159/)