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title: A great cask of mead was drawn into the hall, piles of wood blazed,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A great cask of mead was drawn into the hall, piles of wood blazed, cattle were slain and served up, that they might feast in reality, The priest who offered the sacrifice sprinkled the devoted parishioners with the warm blood; the fire crackled, and the smoke rolled along beneath the roof; the soot
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 14

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A great cask of mead was drawn into the hall, piles of wood blazed, cattle were slain and served up, that they might feast in reality, The priest who offered the sacrifice sprinkled the devoted parishioners with the warm blood; the fire crackled, and the smoke rolled along beneath the roof; the soot fell upon them from the beams; but they were used to all these things.

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**Who acts:** cattle, priest, sacrifice, fire, smoke, soot · **What happens:** draw, blaze, slay, serve up, feast, offer · **To what, where:** great cask, hall, wood, cattle, reality, devoted parishioners

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, priest, sacrifice, 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:pg27200:84:14
# text = A great cask of mead was drawn into the hall, piles of wood blazed, cattle were slain and served up, that they might feast in reality, The priest who offered the sacrifice sprinkled the devoted parishioners with the warm blood; the fire crackled, and the smoke rolled along beneath the roof; the soot fell upon them from the beams; but they were used to all these things.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	parishioners	parishioner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	crackled	crackle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
54	along	along	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
62	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obl	_	_
64	from	from	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
68	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
69	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj:pass	_	_
70	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	aux:pass	_	_
71	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
72	to	to	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
73	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	75	det:predet	_	_
74	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	75	det	_	_
75	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive |  | a great cask of mead |  |  |  | into the hall and piles of wood *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient into hall=Result |
| 2 | **blaze** | participle |  | wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** | past · passive |  | cattle |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **serve up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feast** | might | cattle |  |  | reality |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **offer** | past | the priest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sprinkle** | past | the sacrifice | the devoted parishioners |  |  |  | with the warm blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent parishioner=Destination with blood=Theme |
| 8 | **crackle** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **roll** | past | the smoke |  |  | the roof |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath roof=Trajectory |
| 10 | **fall** | past | the soot |  |  | the beams |  | upon cattle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 11 | **use** | past · passive |  | cattle |  |  |  | to all things | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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