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title: The mist was cold and damp, her hands and face were moist and clammy… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The mist was cold and damp, her hands and face were moist and clammy with horror, a heavy weight again seized her and clung to her, her mind became clear for thoughts that had never before been there. Who acts: mist, hands, heavy weight, mind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 133

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The mist was cold and damp, her hands and face were moist and clammy with horror, a heavy weight again seized her and clung to her, her mind became clear for thoughts that had never before been there.

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**Who acts:** mist, hands, heavy weight, mind, thoughts, sound · **What happens:** be, seize, cling, become, have, not be · **To what, where:** sound

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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 (mist, hands, heavy weight, mind), 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:pg27200:5:133
# text = The mist was cold and damp, her hands and face were moist and clammy with horror, a heavy weight again seized her and clung to her, her mind became clear for thoughts that had never before been there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	clammy	clammy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
39	before	before	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
41	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the mist |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | sound's hands and face |  |  |  |  | moist *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | sound's hands and face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with horror | tree rules |
| 5 | **seize** | past | a heavy weight | sound |  |  | again |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **cling** | past | a heavy weight *not said here* |  | sound |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **become** | past | sound's mind |  |  |  |  | for thoughts; clear *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **have** | past | thoughts |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | before, there *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **mind** |  | sound |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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