Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 84

At the last day," thought he, "the earth will unfold its great wings, and soar upwards to the skies, there to burst like a soap-bubble in the radiant glance of the Deity.

Who acts: earth, Deity · What happens: think, unfold, soar, burst, glance · To what, where: Kjoge, great wings, skies, radiant glance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (earth, Deity), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unfold	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 unfold	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unfold	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 unfold	aux
14	unfold	unfold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	conj
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wings	nmod:poss
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wings	amod
17	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 unfold	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 soar	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 soar	cc
20	soar	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	parataxis
21	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	20 soar	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 skies	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 skies	det
24	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 soar	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 burst	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 burst	expl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 burst	mark
28	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 soar	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 bubble	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bubble	det
31	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bubble	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 soap	punct
33	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burst	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 glance	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 glance	det
36	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 glance	amod
37	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burst	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Deity	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Deity	det
40	Deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 glance	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past		Kjoge		day		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	unfold	future	the earth	earth's great wings				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	soar	present			the skies		upwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sky=Trajectory
4	burst	to-infinitive			the radiant glance of the Deity; there		like a soap bubble	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glance=Location
5	glance		the Deity					nom glance «act 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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