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title: Towards morning, a thick fog covered the whole country round, and a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards morning, a thick fog covered the whole country round, and a keen wind arose, so that the cold seemed to freeze one's bones; but when the sun rose, the sight was splendid. Who acts: thick fog, keen wind, cold, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 30

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Towards morning, a thick fog covered the whole country round, and a keen wind arose, so that the cold seemed to freeze one's bones; but when the sun rose, the sight was splendid.

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**Who acts:** thick fog, keen wind, cold, sun, sight · **What happens:** cover, arise, seem, freeze, rise, be · **To what, where:** whole country, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick fog, keen wind, cold, sun), 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:pg27200:169:30
# text = Towards morning, a thick fog covered the whole country round, and a keen wind arose, so that the cold seemed to freeze one's bones; but when the sun rose, the sight was splendid.
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | a thick fog | the whole country |  |  | morning | round *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Destination |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a keen wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the cold |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **freeze** | to-infinitive | the cold *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | the sight |  |  |  |  | splendid *property* | tree rules |

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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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