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title: There was no air beside the hot burning sulphur flame, and there was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no air beside the hot burning sulphur flame, and there was no ground under their feet; they, the wicked ones, sank deeper and deeper, while eternal silence surrounded them! Who acts: air, ground, propensities, wicked ones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 11

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There was no air beside the hot burning sulphur flame, and there was no ground under their feet; they, the wicked ones, sank deeper and deeper, while eternal silence surrounded them!

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**Who acts:** air, ground, propensities, wicked ones · **What happens:** be, one, sink, surround · **To what, where:** hot sulphur flame, eternal silence

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, ground, propensities, wicked ones), 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:pg27200:2:11
# text = There was no air beside the hot burning sulphur flame, and there was no ground under their feet; they, the wicked ones, sank deeper and deeper, while eternal silence surrounded them!
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no air |  |  | the hot sulphur flame; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside flame=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | no ground under propensities's feet |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **one** |  | propensities *= propensity* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sink** | past | the wicked ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | eternal silence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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