--- title: With the break of day, therefore, they commenced their flight; first… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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 s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/) / 35 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:88:35 # text = 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." 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 commenced commence VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 15 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 towards towards ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 proudly proudly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 conj _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 conj _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 54 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 conj _ _ 59 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 62 advmod _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 Giver Giver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 or or CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 67 " " PUNCT `` _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 if if SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 69 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 70 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/36/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)