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title: The heavy, damp mists of autumn, which destroy the leaves of the woo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The heavy, damp mists of autumn, which destroy the leaves of the wood, had already fallen upon forest and heath. Who acts: heavy damp mists. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 38

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The heavy, damp mists of autumn, which destroy the leaves of the wood, had already fallen upon forest and heath.

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**Who acts:** heavy damp mists · **What happens:** destroy, fall, mist · **To what, where:** leaves, forest, autumn

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy damp mists), 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:pg27200:84:38
# text = The heavy, damp mists of autumn, which destroy the leaves of the wood, had already fallen upon forest and heath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	destroy	destroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	already	already	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | present | the heavy damp mists of autumn | the leaves of the wood |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | the heavy damp mists of autumn *not said here* |  |  | forest and heath |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon forest=Location |
| 3 | **mist** |  |  | autumn |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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