--- title: Day and night beautiful Helga was absorbed in the contemplation of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:88:25 # text = 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. 1 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 list _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 absorbed absorb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 contemplation contemplation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 contemplation contemplation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 hurriedly hurriedly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 giver giver NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 examine examine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/26/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)