Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 2

One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever.

Who acts: demon, looking glass, power · What happens: be, make, look, have, reflect, shrink · To what, where: merry mood, looking glass, power, everything, size

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 (demon, looking glass, power), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mood	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 mood	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mood	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mood	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 mood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mood	det
9	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mood	amod
10	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 glass	det
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 glass	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 looking	punct
17	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 glass	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 power	det
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 making	mark
23	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 power	acl
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 making	obj
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 everything	amod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 beautiful	cc
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 good	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 reflected	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 reflected	aux:pass
30	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 everything	acl:relcl
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	34 shrink	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 shrink	nsubj
33	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 shrink	advmod
34	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 reflected	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 nothing	case
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 shrink	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 increased	punct
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	46 increased	mark
39	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	46 increased	nsubj:pass
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 worthless	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 worthless	cop
42	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 everything	acl:relcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bad	cc
44	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 worthless	conj
45	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 increased	aux:pass
46	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 made	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 size	case
48	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 increased	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 worse	cc
50	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 increased	conj
51	than	than	ADP	_	52 ever	case
52	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 worse	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	demon		a merry mood			tree rules
2	make	past	demon	a looking glass		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Product
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	past	a looking glass	the power				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
5	make	gerund	the power not said here	everything				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product
6	reflect	past · passive						tree rules
7	shrink	present	power				to nothing result; almost property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to nothing=Result
8	is	past					worthless property	tree rules
9	be							tree rules
10	increase	past · passive		everything	size			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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