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title: The children in the house stood round the stove; for they wanted to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The children in the house stood round the stove; for they wanted to see the paper burn, because it flamed up so prettily, and afterwards, among the ashes, so many red sparks could be seen running one after the other, here and there, as quick as the wind. Who acts: children, burn, many red sparks. A 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 70

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The children in the house stood round the stove; for they wanted to see the paper burn, because it flamed up so prettily, and afterwards, among the ashes, so many red sparks could be seen running one after the other, here and there, as quick as the wind.

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**Who acts:** children, burn, many red sparks · **What happens:** stand, want, see, flame up, run · **To what, where:** ashes, paper burn, many red sparks, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, burn, many red sparks), 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:pg27200:34:70
# text = The children in the house stood round the stove; for they wanted to see the paper burn, because it flamed up so prettily, and afterwards, among the ashes, so many red sparks could be seen running one after the other, here and there, as quick as the wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	flamed	flame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	prettily	prettily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
41	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	xcomp	_	_
42	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	obj	_	_
43	after	after	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the children in the house |  |  | the ashes |  | round the stove; afterwards *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among ash=Location |
| 2 | **want** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | the paper burn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burn=Stimulus |
| 4 | **flame up** | past | burn |  |  |  |  | prettily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | could · passive |  | many red sparks |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **run** | gerund | many red sparks *not said here* | one |  |  | after the other |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |

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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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