Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 14
Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly.
Who acts: this, pieces · What happens: make, be, wear, see · To what, where: Other pieces, spectacles, pieces, nothing
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 (this, pieces), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pieces | amod |
| 2 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 spectacles | case |
| 6 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreadful | punct |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dreadful | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dreadful | cop |
| 10 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 dreadful | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wore | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 see | advmod |
| 23 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 justly | cc |
| 25 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 23 rightly | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Other pieces | spectacles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into spectacle=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | for those; dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | pieces = piece | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | |||||
| 4 | see | could | pieces = piece | nothing | either, rightly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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