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title: Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entire… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him. Who acts: enthusiast, vast object. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with i
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 95

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Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him.

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**Who acts:** enthusiast, vast object · **What happens:** overshadow, have, miss, seem, throw · **To what, where:** enthusiast, part

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enthusiast, vast object), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:8:95
# text = Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	enthusiast	enthusiast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overshadow** | participle |  | our enthusiast |  |  | night | presently *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent enthusiast=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | our enthusiast |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **miss** | past | our enthusiast *not said here* | doubt's part of copying clerk at a police office |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |
| 4 | **seem** | past | some vast object |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive · passive | some vast object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over doubt | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: over he=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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