Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 38

The heavy, damp mists of autumn, which destroy the leaves of the wood, had already fallen upon forest and heath.

Who acts: heavy damp mists · What happens: destroy, fall, mist · To what, where: leaves, forest, autumn

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy damp mists), 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	5 mists	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mists	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 heavy	punct
4	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mists	amod
5	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 destroy	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 autumn	case
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mists	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 destroy	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 destroy	nsubj
10	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaves	det
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 destroy	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaves	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fallen	punct
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fallen	aux
18	already	already	ADV	_	19 fallen	advmod
19	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 destroy	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 forest	case
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fallen	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heath	cc
23	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forest	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 destroy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	destroy	present	the heavy damp mists of autumn	the leaves of the wood		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	fall	past · perfect	the heavy damp mists of autumn not said here		forest and heath	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon forest=Location
3	mist			autumn		nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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