Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 44

Eliza was still gazing at the scene, when mountains, forests, and castles melted away, and twenty stately churches rose in their stead, with high towers and pointed gothic windows.

Who acts: Eliza, twenty churches · What happens: gaze, melt away, rise, point · To what, where: castles, stead, gothic windows

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, twenty churches), 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	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gazing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazing	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 gazing	advmod
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 scene	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 scene	det
7	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mountains	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 mountains	advmod
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scene	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forests	punct
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mountains	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 castles	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 castles	cc
15	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gazing	obl
16	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 castles	acl
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 melted	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 churches	nummod
21	stately	stately	ADV	_	20 twenty	advmod
22	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazing	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 stead	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stead	nmod:poss
26	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rose	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 towers	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 towers	case
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 towers	amod
30	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stead	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pointed	cc
32	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
33	gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 windows	amod
34	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pointed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gazing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past · progressive	Eliza	castles		still	at the scene and mountains and forests	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scene=Theme
2	melt away	participle		castles not said here			away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rise	past	twenty churches		churches's stead and high towers			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stead=Location
4	point	past	twenty churches not said here	gothic windows				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient

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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