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title: Eliza was still gazing at the scene, when mountains, forests, and ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Sw
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 44

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:209:44
# text = 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.
1	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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