Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 6
When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention.
Who acts: good thought, demon · What happens: pass, misrepresent, laugh, invent · To what, where: mind, thought, glass, cunning invention
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 (good thought, demon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11667): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 passed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thought | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | amod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 pious | cc |
| 5 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 good | conj |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 misrepresented | advcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mind | det |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 any | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | nmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 misrepresented | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 misrepresented | aux:pass |
| 16 | misrepresented | misrepresent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 glass | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 glass | det |
| 19 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 misrepresented | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 laughed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 laughed | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 laughed | advmod |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 laughed | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 demon | det |
| 25 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laughed | nsubj |
| 26 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 misrepresented | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 invention | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 invention | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 invention | amod |
| 30 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laughed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 misrepresented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | a good thought | the mind any one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 2 | misrepresent | past · passive | thought | the glass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the demon | demon's cunning invention | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | invent | demon | nom invention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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