Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 11

When one of these tiny atoms flew into a person's eye, it stuck there unknown to him, and from that moment he saw everything through a distorted medium, or could see only the worst side of what he looked at, for even the smallest fragment retained the same power which had belonged to the whole mirror.

Who acts: one, glass, person, smallest fragment, same power · What happens: fly, stick, see, distort, look, retain · To what, where: eye, everything, distorted medium, worst side, same power

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 (one, glass, person, smallest fragment), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 flew	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 flew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 atoms	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 atoms	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 atoms	amod
6	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	advcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 eye	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eye	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 person	case
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stuck	nsubj
15	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 unknown	advmod
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stuck	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unknown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 moment	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stuck	conj
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 saw	obj
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 medium	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 medium	det
30	distorted	distort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 medium	amod
31	medium	medium	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 saw	conj
36	only	only	ADV	_	39 side	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 side	det
38	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 side	amod
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 what	case
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 side	nmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 looked	nsubj
43	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 what	acl:relcl
44	at	at	ADP	_	43 looked	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 retained	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 retained	mark
47	even	even	ADV	_	50 fragment	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 fragment	det
49	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	50 fragment	amod
50	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 retained	nsubj
51	retained	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 see	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 power	det
53	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 power	amod
54	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 retained	obj
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 belonged	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 belonged	aux
57	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 power	acl:relcl
58	to	to	ADP	_	61 mirror	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 mirror	det
60	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 mirror	amod
61	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 belonged	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	one of this tiny atoms				into a person's eye result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into eye=Result
2	stick	past	glass				unknown property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	person	everything	a distorted medium	moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	distort	participle						vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
5	see	could	person not said here	the worst side				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus
6	look	past	person					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	retain	past	the smallest fragment	the same power				tree rules
8	belong	past · perfect	the same power				to the whole mirror	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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