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title: A burning light remained in the room, and a long, red wick rose far… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A burning light remained in the room, and a long, red wick rose far above the flame, which fluttered in the draught of air. Who acts: burning light, flame. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 35

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A burning light remained in the room, and a long, red wick rose far above the flame, which fluttered in the draught of air.

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**Who acts:** burning light, flame · **What happens:** burn, remain, rise, flutter · **To what, where:** burning light, room, flame, draught

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burning light, flame), 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:pg27200:70:35
# text = A burning light remained in the room, and a long, red wick rose far above the flame, which fluttered in the draught of air.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wick	wick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | participle |  | a burning light *not said here* |  | the room |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 3 | **rise** | past | a burning light |  |  | the flame |  | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above flame=Location |
| 4 | **flutter** | past | the flame |  |  | the draught of air |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in draught=Location |

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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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