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title: The air in the room was heavy and stifling, no light was burning, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The air in the room was heavy and stifling, no light was burning, and from one corner came sounds of moaning and sighing. Who acts: air, light, sounds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 181

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The air in the room was heavy and stifling, no light was burning, and from one corner came sounds of moaning and sighing.

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**Who acts:** air, light, sounds · **What happens:** be, stifle, burn, come, moan, sigh · **To what, where:** sounds, one corner

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, light, sounds), 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:pg27200:51:181
# text = The air in the room was heavy and stifling, no light was burning, and from one corner came sounds of moaning and sighing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stifling	stifle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the air in the room |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stifle** | gerund | the air in the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | past · progressive | no light |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past |  | sounds |  | one corner |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 5 | **moan** | gerund | sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sigh** | gerund | sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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