Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 35

With the break of day, therefore, they commenced their flight; first rising high in the air, towards the sun, which is the eye of God; still higher and higher the ostrich flew, far above the other birds, proudly approaching the light, trusting in its own strength, and thinking not of the Giver, or saying, "if God will."

Who acts: ostriches, sun, higher · What happens: commence, rise, be, fly, approach, trust · To what, where: flight, sun, eye, light, own strength, day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ostriches, sun, higher), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 break	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 break	det
3	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 commenced	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 commenced	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 commenced	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 commenced	nsubj
10	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 flight	nmod:poss
12	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 commenced	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 rising	punct
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 rising	advmod
15	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 commenced	advcl
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rising	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 high	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sun	punct
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	23 sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rising	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eye	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 eye	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 eye	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eye	det
28	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sun	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 God	case
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 eye	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 higher	punct
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 higher	advmod
33	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 flew	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 higher	cc
35	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 higher	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ostrich	det
37	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flew	nsubj
38	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 commenced	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 far	punct
40	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 flew	advmod
41	above	above	ADP	_	44 birds	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 birds	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 birds	amod
44	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 far	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 approaching	punct
46	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	47 approaching	advmod
47	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 flew	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 light	det
49	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 approaching	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 trusting	punct
51	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 approaching	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 strength	case
53	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 strength	nmod:poss
54	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 strength	amod
55	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 trusting	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 thinking	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 thinking	cc
58	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 approaching	conj
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 Giver	advmod
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 Giver	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Giver	det
62	Giver	Giver	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 thinking	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 saying	punct
64	or	or	CCONJ	_	65 saying	cc
65	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 approaching	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 saying	punct
67	"	"	PUNCT	_	65 saying	punct
68	if	if	SCONJ	_	70 will	mark
69	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	70 will	nsubj
70	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 saying	ccomp
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 commenced	punct
72	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 commenced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	commence	past	ostriches = ostrich	ostriches's flight		with the break of day; therefore property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality with break=Subeventuality
2	rise	gerund	ostriches = ostrich not said here		the sun and the eye	first, high property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	the sun and the eye	the eye		of God	tree rules
4	fly	past	higher			far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	approach	gerund	higher not said here	the light		proudly property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
6	trust	gerund	higher not said here		light's own strength		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	gerund	higher not said here			of the Giver	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	gerund	higher not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	break			day			nom break «event transitive»: of=patient

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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