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title: Adria! shroud thyself in mists; let the veil of thy widowhood shroud… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Adria! shroud thyself in mists; let the veil of thy widowhood shroud thy form, and clothe in the weeds of woe the mausoleum of thy bridegroom--the marble, spectral Venice." Who acts: thy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 21

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Adria! shroud thyself in mists; let the veil of thy widowhood shroud thy form, and clothe in the weeds of woe the mausoleum of thy bridegroom--the marble, spectral Venice."

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**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** let, clothe, form · **To what, where:** veil

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy), 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:pg27200:108:21
# text = Adria! shroud thyself in mists; let the veil of thy widowhood shroud thy form, and clothe in the weeds of woe the mausoleum of thy bridegroom--the marble, spectral Venice."
1	Adria	Adria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	3	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	appos	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	widowhood	widowhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	clothe	clothe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mausoleum	mausoleum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	spectral	spectral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | the veil of thy widowhood shroud |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 2 | **clothe** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in the weeds of woe | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in weed=Theme |
| 3 | **form** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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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