Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 46

As they drew nearer to the churches, they also changed into a fleet of ships, which seemed to be sailing beneath her; but as she looked again, she found it was only a sea mist gliding over the ocean.

Who acts: tones, ships, Eliza, ship, sea mist · What happens: draw, change, seem, sail, look, find · To what, where: churches, fleet, sea mist, ocean · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tones, ships, Eliza, ship), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	advcl
4	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 drew	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 churches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 churches	det
7	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 changed	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 changed	nsubj
10	also	also	ADV	_	11 changed	advmod
11	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 fleet	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fleet	det
14	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 ships	case
16	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fleet	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ships	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 sailing	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sailing	aux
22	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 seemed	xcomp
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sailing	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 found	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 looked	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	advcl
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 looked	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 mist	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 mist	cop
36	only	only	ADV	_	39 mist	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 mist	det
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mist	compound
39	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 found	ccomp
40	gliding	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 mist	acl
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 ocean	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ocean	det
43	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gliding	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	tones = tone		the churches		near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to church=Destination
2	change	past	tones = tone				into a fleet of ships result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into fleet=Result
3	seem	past	ships					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	sail	to-infinitive · progressive	ships not said here				beneath Eliza	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	Eliza			again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	find	past	Eliza					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	ship	a sea mist				tree rules
8	glide	gerund	a sea mist not said here		the ocean			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ocean=Trajectory

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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