Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 76

He felt as if they were now about to enter fairyland, though everything was still real.

Who acts: Jurgen, sheep, everything · What happens: feel, enter, be · To what, where: fairyland

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (Jurgen, sheep, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 enter	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 enter	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enter	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 enter	aux
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 about	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 enter	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 enter	mark
10	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	ccomp
11	fairyland	fairyland	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enter	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 real	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 real	mark
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 real	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 real	cop
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 real	advmod
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Jurgen				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	enter a condition, not said to happen	past	sheep	fairyland		about property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fairyland=Destination
3	is	past	everything		still	real property	tree rules

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.

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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