--- title: In a short time the old woman had to go to the fireplace to stir the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a short time the old woman had to go to the fireplace to stir the fire, and when the blaze lit up Halvor, as it used to do when he was at home raking up the ashes, she knew him again. Who acts: old woman, blaze, Halvor, home. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/) / 95 # The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 95 In a short time the old woman had to go to the fireplace to stir the fire, and when the blaze lit up Halvor, as it used to do when he was at home raking up the ashes, she knew him again. **Who acts:** old woman, blaze, Halvor, home, woman · **What happens:** have, go, stir, lit up, use, do · **To what, where:** fireplace, fire, home, ashes, Halvor This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, blaze, Halvor, home), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:6:95 # text = In a short time the old woman had to go to the fireplace to stir the fire, and when the blaze lit up Halvor, as it used to do when he was at home raking up the ashes, she knew him again. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fireplace fireplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 Halvor Halvor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 raking rake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the old woman | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | | | the fireplace | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fireplace=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **stir** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | the fire | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | | 4 | **lit up** | participle | the blaze | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | past | blaze | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | blaze *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | Halvor | | | home | | | tree rules | | 8 | **rake up** | gerund | home *not said here* | the ashes | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ash=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **know** | past | woman | Halvor | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/96/) - ↑ back to [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/)