Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 16

She thought she must still be dreaming, it seemed so strange to her to feel herself being carried so high in the air over the sea.

Who acts: Eliza, it · What happens: think, dream, seem, feel, carry · To what, where: Eliza, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (Eliza, it), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dreaming	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dreaming	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 dreaming	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 dreaming	aux
7	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 strange	advmod
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seemed	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 feel	mark
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 carried	nsubj:pass
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 carried	aux:pass
19	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 feel	ccomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 high	advmod
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 carried	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carried	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Eliza						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	dream	must · progressive	Eliza				still		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it		Eliza			strange property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	feel	to-infinitive							vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	carry	gerund · passive		Eliza		the air		over the sea; high property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in air=Location

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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