Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 12

Some few persons even got a fragment of the looking-glass in their hearts, and this was very terrible, for their hearts became cold like a lump of ice.

Who acts: few persons, this, hearts · What happens: get, look, be, become · To what, where: fragment

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 (few persons, this, hearts), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 persons	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persons	amod
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fragment	det
7	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 glass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 glass	det
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 glass	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fragment	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hearts	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hearts	nmod:poss
15	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 glass	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 terrible	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 terrible	cc
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 terrible	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 terrible	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 terrible	advmod
21	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 hearts	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hearts	nmod:poss
25	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 lump	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lump	det
30	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 ice	case
32	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lump	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	some few persons	a fragment of the looking glass in fragments's hearts		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fragment=Stimulus
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	this		terrible property	tree rules
4	become	past	fragments's hearts		like a lump of ice; cold property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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