Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 70

These passing thoughts formed themselves into a vivid dream, and it seemed to her that she was still lying awake on her couch, while without darkness reigned.

Who acts: passing thoughts, it, wife · What happens: pass, form, seem, lie, reign · To what, where: thoughts, vivid dream, wife, couch

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passing thoughts, it, wife), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 thoughts	det
2	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 thoughts	amod
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 formed	nsubj
4	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 formed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 dream	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dream	det
8	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dream	amod
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 formed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
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	4 formed	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lying	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lying	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	aux
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 lying	advmod
20	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 seemed	xcomp
21	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lying	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 couch	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 couch	nmod:poss
24	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reigned	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 reigned	mark
27	without	without	ADP	_	28 darkness	case
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reigned	obl
29	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seemed	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	form	past	this passing thoughts	thoughts = thought		a vivid dream			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
3	seem	past	it		wife				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	lie	past · progressive	wife			wife's couch	still	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location
5	reign	past						without darkness	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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