Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 10

But now the looking-glass caused more unhappiness than ever, for some of the fragments were not so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about the world into every country.

Who acts: looking glass, some, world · What happens: look, cause, not be, fly · To what, where: more unhappiness, country

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (looking glass, some, world), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 caused	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 caused	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
4	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 glass	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caused	nsubj
7	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 unhappiness	amod
9	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caused	obj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 caused	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 large	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 large	mark
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 large	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fragments	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fragments	det
17	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 some	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 large	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 large	advmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 large	advmod
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caused	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 grain	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grain	det
24	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 large	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sand	case
26	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grain	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flew	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 flew	nsubj
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 caused	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 country	case
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 country	det
36	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cause	past	the looking glass	more unhappiness		now		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition unhappiness=Patient
3	not is	past	some				as a grain of sand; large property	tree rules
4	fly	past	world		every country		about the world	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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