Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 25

Day and night beautiful Helga was absorbed in the contemplation of the great amount of her happiness, and lost herself in the contemplation, like a child who turns hurriedly from the giver to examine the beautiful gifts.

Who acts: child · What happens: absorb, lose, turn, examine, contemplate, amount · To what, where: Day, contemplation, Helga, giver, beautiful gifts, great amount

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 (child), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 absorbed	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 night	cc
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	conj
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Helga	amod
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Day	list
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 absorbed	aux:pass
7	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 contemplation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 contemplation	det
10	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 absorbed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 amount	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 amount	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 amount	amod
14	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 contemplation	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 happiness	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 happiness	nmod:poss
17	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 amount	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lost	cc
20	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 absorbed	conj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 lost	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 contemplation	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 contemplation	det
24	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 child	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 child	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 turns	nsubj
30	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 child	acl:relcl
31	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	30 turns	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 giver	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 giver	det
34	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turns	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 examine	mark
36	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 turns	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gifts	det
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gifts	amod
39	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 examine	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 absorbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	absorb	past · passive		Day and night	the contemplation of the great amount of Helga's happiness		vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lose	past		Helga	the contemplation	like a child	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Eventuality
3	turn	present	a child		the giver	hurriedly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from giver=Trajectory
4	examine	to-infinitive	a child not said here	the beautiful gifts			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
5	contemplate			the great amount of Helga's happiness			nom contemplation «act transitive»: of=patient
6	amount			Helga's happiness			nom amount «possession 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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