Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 7
In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth.
Who acts: beautiful landscapes, anyone, you · What happens: look, boil, turn, appear, stand, distort · To what, where: best persons, frights, heads, faces, mole, nose
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 (beautiful landscapes, anyone, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mirror | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mirror | det |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 landscapes | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 landscapes | amod |
| 7 | landscapes | landscape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 spinach | case |
| 10 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 spinach | amod |
| 11 | spinach | spinach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 persons | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 persons | amod |
| 16 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turned | aux:pass |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 looked | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 frights | case |
| 20 | frights | fright | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeared | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 appeared | cc |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stand | mark |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 appeared | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 heads | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heads | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stand | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 distorted | punct |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 faces | nmod:poss |
| 31 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 distorted | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 distorted | aux:pass |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 distorted | advmod |
| 34 | distorted | distort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 appeared | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 recognised | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 recognised | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 recognised | aux:pass |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 recognised | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 recognised | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 recognised | aux:pass |
| 41 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 distorted | advcl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 had | cc |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 had | mark |
| 45 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 46 had | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 mole | det |
| 48 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 sure | punct |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 sure | nsubj |
| 51 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 sure | aux |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 sure | cop |
| 53 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 had | parataxis |
| 54 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 magnified | mark |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 magnified | nsubj:pass |
| 56 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 magnified | aux |
| 57 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 magnified | aux:pass |
| 58 | magnified | magnify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 sure | ccomp |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 spread | cc |
| 60 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 58 magnified | conj |
| 61 | over | over | ADP | _ | 63 nose | case |
| 62 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 63 nose | det |
| 63 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 spread | obl |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 mouth | cc |
| 65 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 nose | conj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the beautiful landscapes | like boiled spinach; in this mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mirror=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | the best persons | frights | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into fright=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | stand | to-infinitive | Mirror's heads | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | |||||
| 6 | distort | past · passive | Mirror's faces | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | |||||
| 7 | not recognise | past · passive | faces = face | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | anyone | a mole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient | ||||
| 9 | is | might | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | magnify | would · passive | mole | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 11 | spread | participle | both nose and mouth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over nose=Location |
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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