--- title: As they drew nearer to the churches, they also changed into a fleet… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:209:46 # text = 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. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 4 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 churches church NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 also also ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fleet fleet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 22 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 xcomp _ _ 23 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ _ 40 gliding glide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. 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