Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 5

The weather was dismally dark, and inclined to rain; the clouds hung low, like a mourning veil on the tops of the mountains, and shrouded their glittering peaks.

Who acts: weather, clouds · What happens: be, incline, hang, shroud · To what, where: rain, glittering peaks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, clouds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
4	dismally	dismally	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 inclined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 inclined	cc
8	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dark	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rain	mark
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 inclined	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clouds	det
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	nsubj
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	parataxis
15	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hung	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 veil	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 veil	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 veil	det
19	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 veil	compound
20	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 tops	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tops	det
23	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 veil	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 mountains	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountains	det
26	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tops	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shrouded	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shrouded	cc
29	shrouded	shroud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hung	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 peaks	nmod:poss
31	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 peaks	compound
32	peaks	peak	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shrouded	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weather		dark, dismally property	tree rules
2	incline	participle	the weather not said here	rain		vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past	the clouds		like a mourning veil on the tops of the mountains; low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shroud	past	the clouds not said here	mountains's glittering peaks		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peak=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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