Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 18

Some of the broken pieces were so large that they were used for windowpanes, through which one could not see one's friends.

Who acts: Some, one · What happens: break, be, use, not see · To what, where: pieces, one

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 (Some, one), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 large	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pieces	det
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pieces	amod
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 large	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 used	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 large	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 windowpanes	case
14	windowpanes	windowpane	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
16	through	through	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 see	obl
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	parataxis
22	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	's	's	PART	_	22 one	case
24	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 see	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	Some		large property	tree rules
3	use	past · passive		pieces = piece	for windowpanes	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for windowpane=Eventuality
4	not see	could	one	one		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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