Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 16

There were still a number of these little fragments of glass floating about in the air, and now you shall hear what happened with one of them.

Who acts: number, glass, you · What happens: be, float, hear, happen · To what, where: air · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (number, glass, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 fragments	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 fragments	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fragments	amod
9	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 number	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 glass	case
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fragments	nmod
12	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 glass	acl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 floating	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 floating	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hear	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hear	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 were	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happened	nsubj
24	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	ccomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 happened	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a number of this little fragments of glass	there	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	gerund	glass not said here	the air		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
3	hear	shall	you		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past				with one of fragments	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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