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title: In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing of snail skins, with children's fingers in them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling salt-petre wine from the grave cellars. Who acts: kitchen frogs, dishes.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 23

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In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing of snail skins, with children's fingers in them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling salt-petre wine from the grave cellars.

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**Who acts:** kitchen frogs, dishes · **What happens:** be, roast, prepare, sparkle · **To what, where:** kitchen frogs, brewery, petre wine, grave cellars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen frogs, dishes), 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:pg27200:31:23
# text = In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing of snail skins, with children's fingers in them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling salt-petre wine from the grave cellars.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	salad	salad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	marrow	marrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	brewery	brewery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
48	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	petre	petre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | kitchen frogs and dishes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roast** | gerund | kitchen frogs and dishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the spit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on spit=Instrument |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund | dishes *not said here* |  |  | the marsh woman's brewery |  | of snail skins; with children's fingers in fingers and salad of mushroom seed and hemlock and noses and marrow of mice and beer | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with finger=Instrument |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | dishes *not said here* | petre wine |  | the grave cellars |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wine=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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