Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 15

And now it worked much more evil than before; for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world, and when they got into people's eyes, there they stayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for that which was evil.

Who acts: joke, some, pieces, people · What happens: work, be, fly, get, stay, see · To what, where: wide world, eyes, everything, eye

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joke, some, pieces, people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 worked	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 worked	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 evil	advmod
7	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worked	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 evil	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 large	mark
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 large	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 pieces	det
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 some	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 large	cop
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worked	advcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 grain	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 grain	det
22	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 large	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 sand	case
24	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grain	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flew	nsubj
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
29	about	about	ADV	_	28 flew	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
32	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 world	amod
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 stayed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 stayed	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 got	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 stayed	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 eyes	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 people	case
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 got	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 stayed	expl
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stayed	nsubj
46	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 saw	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 saw	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 saw	advmod
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 saw	nsubj
51	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	parataxis
52	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	51 saw	obj
53	perverted	pervert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 everything	acl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 had	punct
55	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 had	cc
56	only	only	ADV	_	57 had	advmod
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 saw	conj
58	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 eye	det
59	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 had	obj
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 that	case
61	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 had	obl
62	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 evil	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 evil	cop
64	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 that	acl:relcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	joke			now	evil property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	some				as a grain of sand; hardly, large property	tree rules
3	fly	past	pieces = piece		the wide world		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location
4	get	past	pieces = piece		people's eyes			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination
5	stay	past	pieces = piece		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	past	people	everything		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
7	pervert	participle						tree rules
8	have	past	people not said here	a eye			for that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
9	is	past					evil property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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