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title: My mother lighted a fire, and roasted some roots she had brought wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother lighted a fire, and roasted some roots she had brought with her, and I and my little sister slept among the bushes, without fear of the ugly smidraki, from whose throat issues fire, or of the wolf and the jackal; for my mother sat by us, and I considered her presence sufficient protection.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 86

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My mother lighted a fire, and roasted some roots she had brought with her, and I and my little sister slept among the bushes, without fear of the ugly smidraki, from whose throat issues fire, or of the wolf and the jackal; for my mother sat by us, and I considered her presence sufficient protection.

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**Who acts:** mother, I, issues fire · **What happens:** light, roast, bring, sleep, sit, consider · **To what, where:** fire, roots, presence, ugly smidraki

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, issues fire), 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:pg27200:36:86
# text = My mother lighted a fire, and roasted some roots she had brought with her, and I and my little sister slept among the bushes, without fear of the ugly smidraki, from whose throat issues fire, or of the wolf and the jackal; for my mother sat by us, and I considered her presence sufficient protection.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	roasted	roast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	smidraki	smidraki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	compound	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
59	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | participle | My mother *not said here* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 2 | **roast** | past | My mother | some roots |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect | mother | some roots *not said here* |  |  |  | with fire | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | I |  |  |  |  | among the bushes; without fear of the ugly smidraki | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | past | my mother |  |  |  |  | by us | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by we=Location |
| 6 | **consider** | past | I | mother's presence |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent presence=Attribute |
| 7 | **fear** |  |  | the ugly smidraki |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **issue** |  | issues fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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