Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 67
Helga continued to gaze upon the glittering star, which seemed to glow brighter and purer in its light; then between herself and the star floated a form, purer than the air, and visible through it.
Who acts: Helga, glittering star, reception · What happens: continue, gaze, seem, glow, float, light · To what, where: form
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, glittering star, reception), 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 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 gaze | mark |
| 4 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 star | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 star | det |
| 7 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 star | compound |
| 8 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaze | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 star | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 glow | mark |
| 13 | glow | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 glow | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 purer | cc |
| 16 | purer | pure | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 brighter | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 light | nmod:poss |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purer | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 floated | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 floated | advmod |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 herself | case |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 floated | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 star | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 star | det |
| 26 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 herself | conj |
| 27 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 form | det |
| 29 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 floated | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 purer | punct |
| 31 | purer | pure | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 floated | conj |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 air | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 air | det |
| 34 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 purer | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 visible | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 visible | cc |
| 37 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 continued | conj |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 visible | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Helga | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | gaze | to-infinitive | Helga not said here | upon the glittering star | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon star=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the glittering star | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | glow | to-infinitive | the glittering star not said here | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | float | past | Helga | a form | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Agent | |||
| 6 | light | reception | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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