Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 16

His thoughts lifted and carried him away a wonderful distance; it seemed to him as if the bed had become a ship flying along under full sail.

Who acts: thoughts, it, bed, ship, truth · What happens: lift, carry away, seem, become, fly, think · To what, where: truth, ship, full sail

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, it, bed, ship), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 thoughts	nmod:poss
2	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 carried	cc
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 carried	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 distance	det
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 distance	amod
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	obl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 become	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 become	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seemed	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 become	xcomp
24	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 ship	acl
25	along	along	ADV	_	24 flying	advmod
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 sail	case
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sail	amod
28	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flying	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	truth's thoughts					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	carry away	past	truth's thoughts not said here	truth			a wonderful distance obl:unmarked; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	seem	past	it		truth			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	become	past · perfect	the bed	a ship				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	fly	gerund	a ship not said here			full sail	along property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sail=Location
6	think		truth					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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