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title: These passing thoughts formed themselves into a vivid dream, and it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, pa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 70

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:87:70
# text = 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.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
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	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
21	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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