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title: I blew up the fire in the coals on the hearth, and it threw a red gl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I blew up the fire in the coals on the hearth, and it threw a red glow on his ghastly white face, lighting it up with a glare, while his sunken eyes looked out wildly from their cavernous depths, and appeared to grow larger and more prominent, as if they would burst from their sockets. ' Who acts: I
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 130

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I blew up the fire in the coals on the hearth, and it threw a red glow on his ghastly white face, lighting it up with a glare, while his sunken eyes looked out wildly from their cavernous depths, and appeared to grow larger and more prominent, as if they would burst from their sockets. '

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**Who acts:** I, hearth, sunken eyes, eyes · **What happens:** blow up, throw, light up, look out, appear, grow · **To what, where:** fire, red glow, ghastly white face, glow, cavernous depths, sockets

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hearth, sunken eyes, eyes), 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:pg27200:212:130
# text = I blew up the fire in the coals on the hearth, and it threw a red glow on his ghastly white face, lighting it up with a glare, while his sunken eyes looked out wildly from their cavernous depths, and appeared to grow larger and more prominent, as if they would burst from their sockets. '
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hearth	hearth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	cavernous	cavernous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	xcomp	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
51	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	sockets	socket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	_
62	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | past | I | the fire |  |  |  | in the coals on the hearth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Patient in coal=Topic |
| 2 | **throw** | past | hearth | a red glow |  | fire's ghastly white face |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glow=Theme on face=Destination |
| 3 | **light up** | gerund | hearth *not said here* | glow |  |  |  | with a glare | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product with glare=Material |
| 4 | **look out** | past | fire's sunken eyes |  |  | eyes's cavernous depths |  | wildly *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **appear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **burst** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | eyes *= eye* |  |  | eyes's sockets |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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