Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 28
Dark mists, more in number than those that cover the northern skies, cloud the human heart.
What happens: cover · To what, where: northern skies
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mists | amod |
| 2 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 more | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 number | case |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 those | case |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 more | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cover | nsubj |
| 10 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 those | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skies | det |
| 12 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skies | amod |
| 13 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cover | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cloud | punct |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heart | det |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | amod |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cloud | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | the northern skies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=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: «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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