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title: Now we are at the smithy, where the fire roars and the half-naked me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now we are at the smithy, where the fire roars and the half-naked men beat with their hammers so that the sparks fly far and wide. Who acts: we, fire roars, sparks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 77

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Now we are at the smithy, where the fire roars and the half-naked men beat with their hammers so that the sparks fly far and wide.

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**Who acts:** we, fire roars, sparks · **What happens:** be, beat, fly · **To what, where:** smithy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fire roars, 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:pg27200:72:77
# text = Now we are at the smithy, where the fire roars and the half-naked men beat with their hammers so that the sparks fly far and wide.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	roars	roar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | we |  |  | the smithy | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat** | present | the fire roars and the naked men |  |  |  |  | with roars's hammers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hammer=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | present | the sparks |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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