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title: In the bushes burnt an open fire, throwing a red twilight over the q… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the bushes burnt an open fire, throwing a red twilight over the quiet huts of branches, into which the sounds of music penetrated--an ear tickling, intoxicating music, that sent the blood coursing through the veins. Who acts: sounds, that, blood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ander
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 58

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In the bushes burnt an open fire, throwing a red twilight over the quiet huts of branches, into which the sounds of music penetrated--an ear tickling, intoxicating music, that sent the blood coursing through the veins.

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**Who acts:** sounds, that, blood · **What happens:** burnt, throw, penetrate, send, course · **To what, where:** open fire, bushes, red twilight, quiet huts, ear tickling, blood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sounds, that, blood), 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:pg27200:26:58
# text = In the bushes burnt an open fire, throwing a red twilight over the quiet huts of branches, into which the sounds of music penetrated--an ear tickling, intoxicating music, that sent the blood coursing through the veins.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tickling	tickling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	intoxicating	intoxicating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	coursing	course	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | past |  | a open fire |  | the bushes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund |  | a red twilight |  | the quiet huts of branches |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent twilight=Theme over hut=Destination |
| 3 | **penetrate** | participle | the sounds of music | a ear tickling |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | past | that | the blood |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 5 | **course** | gerund | the blood *not said here* |  |  | the veins |  |  | 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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