Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 8
They carried the glass about everywhere, till at last there was not a land nor a people who had not been looked at through this distorted mirror.
Who acts: world · What happens: carry, not look, distort · To what, where: glass, people, distorted mirror
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 (world), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glass | det |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 everywhere | case |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 carried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 carried | conj |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 last | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 land | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 people | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 land | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 looked | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 looked | aux:pass |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 mirror | case |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 mirror | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 mirror | det |
| 27 | distorted | distort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 mirror | amod |
| 28 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | world | the glass | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not look | past · perfect · passive | a people | this distorted mirror | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | distort | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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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