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title: Inside the house the rooms were very high and had ceilings of beams,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside the house the rooms were very high and had ceilings of beams, and that was very useful considering the great deal of smoke which rose up from the chimney fire where the large, damp logs of wood smouldered. Who acts: rooms, that, great deal, large damp logs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 3

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Inside the house the rooms were very high and had ceilings of beams, and that was very useful considering the great deal of smoke which rose up from the chimney fire where the large, damp logs of wood smouldered.

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**Who acts:** rooms, that, great deal, large damp logs · **What happens:** be, have, consider, rise up, smoulder, deal · **To what, where:** house, ceilings, great deal, chimney fire, smoke

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooms, that, great deal, large damp logs), 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:pg27200:22:3
# text = Inside the house the rooms were very high and had ceilings of beams, and that was very useful considering the great deal of smoke which rose up from the chimney fire where the large, damp logs of wood smouldered.
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
20	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	smouldered	smoulder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rooms |  |  | the house |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the rooms *not said here* | ceilings of beams |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceiling=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **consider** | gerund | that *not said here* | the great deal of smoke |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent deal=Attribute |
| 5 | **rise up** | past | the great deal of smoke |  |  | the chimney fire |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fire=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **smoulder** | participle | the large damp logs of wood |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **deal** |  |  | smoke |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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