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title: The watchfires again blazed, and men sang and slept under the hospit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The watchfires again blazed, and men sang and slept under the hospitable shelter of the tree. Who acts: watchfires, men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 52

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The watchfires again blazed, and men sang and slept under the hospitable shelter of the tree.

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**Who acts:** watchfires, men · **What happens:** blaze, sing, sleep · **To what, where:** hospitable shelter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchfires, men), 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:pg27200:69:52
# text = The watchfires again blazed, and men sang and slept under the hospitable shelter of the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watchfires	watchfire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blaze** | past | the watchfires |  |  |  | again |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | men *not said here* |  |  | the hospitable shelter of the tree |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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