--- title: There was a fire in the chimney, and it had now crumbled into great… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was a fire in the chimney, and it had now crumbled into great coals and embers, which lay glowing on the hearth, with a blaze flickering up now and then, and flinging a warm and ruddy light upon the walls. Who acts: fire, great coals, blaze. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawtho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/11/) [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/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/) / 11 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 11 There was a fire in the chimney, and it had now crumbled into great coals and embers, which lay glowing on the hearth, with a blaze flickering up now and then, and flinging a warm and ruddy light upon the walls. **Who acts:** fire, great coals, blaze · **What happens:** be, crumble, lie, glow, flicker up, fling · **To what, where:** chimney, fire, great coals, hearth, warm light, walls This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, great coals, blaze), 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:pg976:23:11 # text = There was a fire in the chimney, and it had now crumbled into great coals and embers, which lay glowing on the hearth, with a blaze flickering up now and then, and flinging a warm and ruddy light upon the walls. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 crumbled crumble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 coals coal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 embers ember NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 22 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 30 flickering flicker VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 flinging fling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 ruddy ruddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 42 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 43 upon upon ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a fire | | | the chimney; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chimney=Location | | 2 | **crumble** | past · perfect · passive | | fire | | | now | into great coals and embers *result*; with a blaze | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient into coal=Result with blaze=Instrument | | 3 | **lie** | past | great coals and embers | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **glow** | gerund | great coals and embers *not said here* | | | the hearth | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hearth=Location | | 5 | **flicker up** | gerund | a blaze *not said here* | | | | now | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fling** | gerund | | a warm light | | the walls | then | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme upon wall=Destination | 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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/12/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/)