Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 47

So there continued to pass before her eyes a constant change of scene, till at last she saw the real land to which they were bound, with its blue mountains, its cedar forests, and its cities and palaces.

Who acts: Eliza, tones, scene · What happens: continue, pass, see, be, change · To what, where: cities, constant change, eyes, real land

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, tones, scene), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 continued	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 continued	advmod
3	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 continued	xcomp
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pass	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 change	det
10	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 change	amod
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 scene	case
13	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 change	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 last	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pass	advcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 last	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 land	amod
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bound	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bound	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bound	cop
27	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 land	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mountains	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 mountains	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mountains	nmod:poss
31	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mountains	amod
32	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bound	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 forests	punct
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 forests	nmod:poss
35	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 forests	compound
36	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 mountains	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cities	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cities	cc
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cities	nmod:poss
40	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 continued	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 palaces	cc
42	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cities	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	participle		land's cities and palaces	there		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	pass	to-infinitive		a constant change of scene	Eliza's eyes		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent change=Theme before eye=Destination
3	see	past	Eliza	the real land			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus
4	is	past	tones = tone			to the real land; bound property	tree rules
5	change		scene				nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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