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title: Towards evening, as the sun went down, dark clouds covered the sky,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards evening, as the sun went down, dark clouds covered the sky, the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed, and the red light glowed on the icebergs as they rocked and tossed on the heaving sea. Who acts: sun, dark clouds, thunder, lightning. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 58

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Towards evening, as the sun went down, dark clouds covered the sky, the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed, and the red light glowed on the icebergs as they rocked and tossed on the heaving sea.

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**Who acts:** sun, dark clouds, thunder, lightning, red light, icebergs · **What happens:** go down, cover, roll, flash, glow, rock · **To what, where:** sky, icebergs, heaving sea

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, 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 (sun, dark clouds, thunder, lightning), 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:pg27200:75:58
# text = Towards evening, as the sun went down, dark clouds covered the sky, the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed, and the red light glowed on the icebergs as they rocked and tossed on the heaving sea.
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	rocked	rock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	tossed	toss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	heaving	heave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	amod	_	_
40	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the sun |  |  |  | evening | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cover** | past | dark clouds | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Destination |
| 3 | **roll** | past | the thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flash** | past | the lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **glow** | participle | the red light |  |  | the icebergs |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on iceberg=Location |
| 6 | **rock** | past | icebergs *= iceberg* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **toss** | participle | icebergs *= iceberg* *not said here* |  |  | the heaving sea |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on sea=Destination |
| 8 | **heave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=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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