Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 19

Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly.

Who acts: that, people · What happens: put, be, see · To what, where: Other pieces, spectacles, sad affair, glasses

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 (that, 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pieces	amod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spectacles	case
6	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 affair	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 affair	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 affair	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 affair	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 affair	det
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 affair	amod
13	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 put	advmod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 glasses	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 glasses	nmod:poss
19	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 put	advcl
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 see	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rightly	cc
24	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	22 well	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		Other pieces	spectacles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in spectacle=Destination
2	is a	past	that	a sad affair			tree rules
3	put	present	people		pieces's glasses		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on glass=Destination
4	see	to-infinitive	people not said here			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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