Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 21

Adria! shroud thyself in mists; let the veil of thy widowhood shroud thy form, and clothe in the weeds of woe the mausoleum of thy bridegroom--the marble, spectral Venice."

Who acts: thy · What happens: let, clothe, form · To what, where: veil

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adria	Adria	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shroud	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Adria	punct
3	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	3 shroud	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 mists	case
6	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thyself	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 shroud	appos
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 veil	det
10	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 shroud	case
12	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 shroud	nmod:poss
13	widowhood	widowhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shroud	compound
14	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 veil	nmod
15	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 form	nmod:poss
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shroud	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clothe	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 clothe	cc
19	clothe	clothe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 weeds	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 weeds	det
22	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 clothe	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 woe	case
24	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weeds	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mausoleum	det
26	mausoleum	mausoleum	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weeds	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 bridegroom	case
28	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 bridegroom	nmod:poss
29	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mausoleum	nmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 marble	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 marble	det
32	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mausoleum	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Venice	punct
34	spectral	spectral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Venice	amod
35	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 marble	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		the veil of thy widowhood shroud		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
2	clothe	infinitive			in the weeds of woe	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in weed=Theme
3	form		thy			nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: «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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