Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 36

But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the reader.

Who acts: transition, certain abyss · What happens: endow, demand, yawn

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transition, certain abyss), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 demands	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 transition	det
3	transition	transition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 demands	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 nature	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nature	det
6	commonplace	commonplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nature	compound
7	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transition	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 nature	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 endowed	obj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 endowed	aux:pass
12	richly	richly	ADV	_	13 endowed	advmod
13	endowed	endow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 one	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 transition	punct
15	demands	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 more	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 demands	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 leap	cc
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 breakneck	advmod
21	breakneck	breakneck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leap	amod
22	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	conj
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 abyss	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 abyss	det
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 abyss	amod
26	abyss	abyss	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leap	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 yawns	nsubj
28	yawns	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 abyss	acl:relcl
29	threateningly	threateningly	ADV	_	30 below	advmod
30	below	below	ADV	_	28 yawns	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 change	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 change	cc
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	37 change	advmod
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 change	aux
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 change	det
36	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 change	amod
37	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 demands	parataxis
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 strike	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 strike	det
40	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 strike	compound
41	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 change	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 reader	det
43	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 strike	nsubj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 demands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	endow	present · passive		richly property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: that=Destination
2	demand speech: request	present	the transition from a commonplace nature to one		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	yawn	present	a certain abyss	below property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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