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title: His thoughts lifted and carried him away a wonderful distance; it se… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 16

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:199:16
# text = 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.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
24	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	along	along	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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