Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 13

A few of the pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes; it would have been a sad thing to look at our friends through them.

Who acts: few, glass · What happens: be, use, look · To what, where: hearts, sad thing

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, glass), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 large	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pieces	det
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 few	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 large	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 used	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 used	nsubj:pass
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 used	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	aux:pass
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 large	advcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 panes	case
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 panes	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 window	punct
17	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 used	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 thing	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thing	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 thing	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 thing	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thing	acl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 friends	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 friends	nmod:poss
30	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 look	obl
31	through	through	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a few of the pieces		large property	tree rules
2	use	could · passive		hearts = heart	as window panes	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as pane=Attribute
3	is a	would · perfect	glass	a sad thing		tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	a few of the pieces not said here		at our friends; through hearts = heart	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at friend=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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