Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 119

As she looked across the sea, all there grew darker; a heavy mist came rolling onwards, and clung to bush and tree, distorting them into fantastic shapes.

Who acts: fear, heavy mist · What happens: look, grow, come, roll, cling, bush · To what, where: hands, fantastic shapes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, heavy mist), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 looked	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
8	all	all	ADV	_	10 grew	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 grew	advmod
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 grew	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mist	det
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mist	amod
15	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
17	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
18	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	17 rolling	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 clung	cc
21	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 came	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 bush	case
23	bush	bush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 clung	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tree	cc
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bush	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 distorting	punct
27	distorting	distort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bush	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 distorting	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 shapes	case
30	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shapes	amod
31	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 distorting	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	fear			across the sea	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across sea=Theme
2	grow	past	fear not said here		there	all, dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a heavy mist				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	roll	gerund	a heavy mist not said here			onwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cling	participle	a heavy mist not said here				tree rules
6	bush	infinitive	a heavy mist not said here				tree rules
7	distort	gerund	a heavy mist not said here	hands = hand	fantastic shapes		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into shape=Product

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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