Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 43

She sunk down, and the spectre covered her with a black cloak; night closed around her, the night of death.

Who acts: expression, spectre · What happens: sink down, cover, close · To what, where: expression

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (expression, spectre), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sunk	nsubj
2	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sunk	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 covered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 covered	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spectre	det
7	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	nsubj
8	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sunk	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 covered	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 cloak	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloak	det
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cloak	amod
13	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 closed	punct
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 closed	obl:unmarked
16	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sunk	parataxis
17	around	around	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 closed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 night	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 closed	obl:unmarked
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 night	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	expression				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cover	past	the spectre	expression		with a black cloak	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with cloak=Theme
3	close	participle			night	around expression	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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