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title: It seemed to her the hour when earth and sky would burst asunder, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to her the hour when earth and sky would burst asunder, and all things be swallowed up in Saturn's fiery lake; but she knew that a new heaven and a new earth would arise, and that corn-fields would wave where now the lake rolled over desolate sands, and the ineffable God reign. Who acts: I
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 80

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It seemed to her the hour when earth and sky would burst asunder, and all things be swallowed up in Saturn's fiery lake; but she knew that a new heaven and a new earth would arise, and that corn-fields would wave where now the lake rolled over desolate sands, and the ineffable God reign.

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**Who acts:** It, earth, new heaven, that, lake · **What happens:** seem, burst, swallow up, know, arise, wave · **To what, where:** storm, asunder, things, fiery lake, ineffable God reign, sands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, earth, new heaven, that), 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:pg27200:87:80
# text = It seemed to her the hour when earth and sky would burst asunder, and all things be swallowed up in Saturn's fiery lake; but she knew that a new heaven and a new earth would arise, and that corn-fields would wave where now the lake rolled over desolate sands, and the ineffable God reign.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	asunder	asunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
43	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
48	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
49	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
53	over	over	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
59	ineffable	ineffable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
60	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | storm |  | hour |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** | would | earth and sky | asunder |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme |
| 3 | **swallow up** | infinitive · passive |  | all things |  | Saturn's fiery lake |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | past | earth | the ineffable God reign |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **arise** | would | a new heaven and a new earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wave** | would | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **roll over** | past | the lake |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **desolate** | infinitive | the lake *not said here* | sands |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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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