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title: Then the clouds arose and covered the region round about where the g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the clouds arose and covered the region round about where the gleaming mist announced "Here lies Paris." Who acts: clouds, gleaming mist. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 66

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Then the clouds arose and covered the region round about where the gleaming mist announced "Here lies Paris."

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**Who acts:** clouds, gleaming mist · **What happens:** arise, cover, gleam, announce, lie · **To what, where:** region, Paris · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, gleaming mist), 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:pg27200:24:66
# text = Then the clouds arose and covered the region round about where the gleaming mist announced "Here lies Paris."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the clouds |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | past | the clouds *not said here* | the region |  |  |  | round *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme region=Destination |
| 3 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the gleaming mist |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lie** *in a quote* | present |  | Paris |  | here |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paris=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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