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title: The house took fire, and burst into flames; the hunter was burnt wit… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The house took fire, and burst into flames; the hunter was burnt with the house, and the light was reflected over the sea as far as the spreading birch, beneath which we laid her sleeping dust. Who acts: house, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh K
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 73

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The house took fire, and burst into flames; the hunter was burnt with the house, and the light was reflected over the sea as far as the spreading birch, beneath which we laid her sleeping dust.

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**Who acts:** house, we · **What happens:** take, burst, burnt, reflect, lay, sleep · **To what, where:** fire, flames, hunter, light, sea, dust

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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 (house, we), 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:pg27200:84:73
# text = The house took fire, and burst into flames; the hunter was burnt with the house, and the light was reflected over the sea as far as the spreading birch, beneath which we laid her sleeping dust.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	xcomp	_	_
40	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the house | fire |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** | past | the house *not said here* |  |  | flames |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **burnt** | past · passive |  | the hunter |  |  |  | with the house | tree rules |
| 4 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | the light |  | the sea |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay** | past | we | fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sleep** | gerund | we *not said here* | dust |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=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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