--- title: Helga continued to gaze upon the glittering star, which seemed to gl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:88:67 # text = 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. 1 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 gaze gaze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 glittering glittering NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 glow glow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 purer pure ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 22 between between ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 purer pure ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 conj _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 visible visible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/68/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/88/)