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title: As she looked across the sea, all there grew darker; a heavy mist ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As she looked across the sea, all there grew darker; a heavy mist came rolling onwards, and clung to bush and tree, distorting them into fantastic shapes. Who acts: fear, heavy mist. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 119

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As she looked across the sea, all there grew darker; a heavy mist came rolling onwards, and clung to bush and tree, distorting them into fantastic shapes.

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**Who acts:** fear, heavy mist · **What happens:** look, grow, come, roll, cling, bush · **To what, where:** hands, fantastic shapes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, heavy 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:pg27200:5:119
# text = As she looked across the sea, all there grew darker; a heavy mist came rolling onwards, and clung to bush and tree, distorting them into fantastic shapes.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bush	bush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	distorting	distort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | fear |  |  |  |  | across the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across sea=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | fear *not said here* |  |  | there |  | all, dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | a heavy mist |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | gerund | a heavy mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cling** | participle | a heavy mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bush** | infinitive | a heavy mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **distort** | gerund | a heavy mist *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  | fantastic shapes |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into shape=Product |

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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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