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title: Then she felt herself lifted up, as it were, above the earth, throug… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she felt herself lifted up, as it were, above the earth, through a sea of sound and thought; not only around her, but within her, was there light and song, such as words cannot express. Who acts: Helga, brightness, light. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 71

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Then she felt herself lifted up, as it were, above the earth, through a sea of sound and thought; not only around her, but within her, was there light and song, such as words cannot express.

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**Who acts:** Helga, brightness, light · **What happens:** feel, lift up, be, not express · **To what, where:** earth

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, brightness, light), 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:pg27200:88:71
# text = Then she felt herself lifted up, as it were, above the earth, through a sea of sound and thought; not only around her, but within her, was there light and song, such as words cannot express.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	within	within	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	44	expl	_	_
35	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	41	case	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Helga |  |  |  | then |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lift up** | participle | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | brightness |  |  | the earth |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **express** | can | light and song |  |  | there |  | such words | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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