Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 64
It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that had got into his eye; and poor Kay had got another piece right in his heart.
Who acts: clock, magic mirror, poor Kay · What happens: be, get · To what, where: one, eye, piece, heart
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 (clock, magic mirror, poor Kay), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 pieces | det |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 glass | case |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pieces | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mirror | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mirror | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mirror | compound |
| 13 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pieces | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 mirror | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eye | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Kay | amod |
| 23 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 got | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | aux |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 one | parataxis |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 piece | det |
| 27 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 28 | right | right | ADV | _ | 31 heart | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 heart | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 heart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | clock | one | of that pieces of glass from the magic mirror | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | the magic mirror | heart's eye | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | poor Kay | another piece | heart's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus |
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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