Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 66
Hand in hand they approached the old ice-man, Winter, embraced him and clung to his breast; and as they did so, in a moment all three were enveloped in a thick, damp mist, dark and heavy, that closed over them like a veil.
Who acts: backs · What happens: approach, embrace, cling, do, envelop, close · To what, where: Hand, man, thick damp mist, that
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (backs), 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 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approached | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hand | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 approached | nsubj |
| 5 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ice | punct |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 approached | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Winter | punct |
| 12 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 man | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 embraced | punct |
| 14 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 approached | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 embraced | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clung | cc |
| 17 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 embraced | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 breast | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 breast | nmod:poss |
| 20 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clung | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 did | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 approached | parataxis |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 did | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enveloped | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 moment | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 moment | det |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enveloped | obl |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 three | det |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 moment | nmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 enveloped | aux:pass |
| 34 | enveloped | envelop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 did | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 mist | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mist | det |
| 37 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 mist | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thick | punct |
| 39 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 mist | amod |
| 40 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enveloped | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dark | punct |
| 42 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 mist | amod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 heavy | cc |
| 44 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 dark | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 closed | punct |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 enveloped | conj |
| 48 | over | over | ADP | _ | 49 them | case |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 closed | obl |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 veil | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 veil | det |
| 52 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 closed | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | backs = back | Hand in hand | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | backs = back not said here | man | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cling | past | backs = back not said here | to man's breast | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to breast=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | backs = back | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | envelop | past · passive | backs = back not said here | a thick damp mist | moment | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP» | |||
| 6 | close | participle · passive | that | over backs = back; like a veil | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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