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title: Damp fogs came, icy winds blew, and the long, dark nights of winter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Damp fogs came, icy winds blew, and the long, dark nights of winter approached. Who acts: Damp fogs, icy winds, long dark nights. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 131

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Damp fogs came, icy winds blew, and the long, dark nights of winter approached.

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**Who acts:** Damp fogs, icy winds, long dark nights · **What happens:** come, blow, approach

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Damp fogs, icy winds, long dark nights), 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:pg27200:214:131
# text = Damp fogs came, icy winds blew, and the long, dark nights of winter approached.
1	Damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fogs	fog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Damp fogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | past | icy winds |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **approach** | participle | the long dark nights of winter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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