Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 4

Their countenances were so distorted that no one could recognize them, and even one freckle on the face appeared to spread over the whole of the nose and mouth.

Who acts: one, one freckle · What happens: distort, recognize, appear, spread · To what, where: countenances, people, whole

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 (one, one freckle), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 countenances	nmod:poss
2	countenances	countenance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 distorted	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distorted	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 distorted	advmod
5	distorted	distort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 recognize	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recognize	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 recognize	aux
10	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 distorted	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 recognize	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 appeared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 appeared	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 freckle	nummod
16	freckle	freckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 appeared	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 face	det
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 freckle	nmod
20	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distorted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 spread	mark
22	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 appeared	xcomp
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 whole	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whole	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spread	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 nose	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nose	det
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whole	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mouth	cc
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nose	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 distorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	distort	past · passive		people's countenances		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
2	recognize	could	no one	people		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	appear	past	one freckle on the face			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	spread	to-infinitive	one freckle on the face not said here		the whole	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over whole=Location

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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