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title: The pieces were placed in a fire under the copper, and they quickly… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The pieces were placed in a fire under the copper, and they quickly blazed up brightly, while the tree sighed so deeply that each sigh was like a pistol-shot. Who acts: pieces, tree, sigh. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 153

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The pieces were placed in a fire under the copper, and they quickly blazed up brightly, while the tree sighed so deeply that each sigh was like a pistol-shot.

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**Who acts:** pieces, tree, sigh · **What happens:** place, blaze up, sigh, be · **To what, where:** pieces, fire

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, tree, sigh), 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:pg27200:33:153
# text = The pieces were placed in a fire under the copper, and they quickly blazed up brightly, while the tree sighed so deeply that each sigh was like a pistol-shot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	pistol	pistol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | the pieces |  | a fire |  | under the copper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fire=Destination |
| 2 | **blaze up** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | brightly, quickly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sigh** | past | the tree |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | each sigh |  |  |  |  | like a pistol shot | 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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