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title: The overhanging clouds absorb all heaviness from the air, and the wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The overhanging clouds absorb all heaviness from the air, and the winds convey them away over the pine-tree summits. Who acts: overhanging clouds, winds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 43

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The overhanging clouds absorb all heaviness from the air, and the winds convey them away over the pine-tree summits.

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**Who acts:** overhanging clouds, winds · **What happens:** overhang, absorb, convey away · **To what, where:** heaviness, air, clouds, tree summits

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overhanging clouds, winds), 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:pg27200:52:43
# text = The overhanging clouds absorb all heaviness from the air, and the winds convey them away over the pine-tree summits.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	absorb	absorb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	heaviness	heaviness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	convey	convey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhang** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **absorb** | present | the overhanging clouds | all heaviness |  | the air |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Goal heaviness=Theme from air=Source |
| 3 | **convey away** | present | the winds | clouds *= cloud* |  | the tree summits |  | away *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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