Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 39

Then Helga bowed her head thoughtfully and seriously, and looked at the circling ostrich, as with timid fear and simple pleasure it glanced at its own great shadow on the sunlit walls.

Who acts: Helga, head · What happens: bow, look, pleasure, glance, shadow · To what, where: head, sunlit walls

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 (Helga, head), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bowed	advmod
2	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	nsubj
3	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	obj
6	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	3 bowed	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seriously	cc
8	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 thoughtfully	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bowed	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 ostrich	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ostrich	det
14	circling	circling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ostrich	compound
15	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pleasure	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 pleasure	mark
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 fear	case
19	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fear	amod
20	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pleasure	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 simple	cc
22	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fear	conj
23	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 glanced	nsubj
25	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pleasure	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 shadow	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 shadow	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shadow	amod
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shadow	amod
30	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glanced	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 walls	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 walls	det
33	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 walls	amod
34	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shadow	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	Helga	Helga's head		then	thoughtfully property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	look	past					at the circling ostrich	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ostrich=Theme
3	pleasure	present					with timid fear	tree rules
4	glance	past	head				at head's own great shadow on the sunlit walls	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shadow=Theme
5	shadow		head		the sunlit walls			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent on=place

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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