Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 9

They wanted even to fly with it up to heaven to see the angels, but the higher they flew the more slippery the glass became, and they could scarcely hold it, till at last it slipped from their hands, fell to the earth, and was broken into millions of pieces.

Who acts: world, glass · What happens: want, fly up, see, fly, become, hold · To what, where: angels, glass, millions

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, glass), 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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	even	even	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fly	obl
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 heaven	case
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 angels	det
14	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 flew	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 higher	det
18	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 flew	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 slippery	det
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 slippery	advmod
23	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flew	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 glass	det
25	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 slippery	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hold	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hold	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hold	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hold	aux
31	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	32 hold	advmod
32	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flew	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hold	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 last	punct
35	till	till	ADP	_	37 last	case
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hold	obl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 slipped	nsubj
39	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 last	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 hands	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 slipped	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 fell	punct
44	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 slipped	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 earth	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 earth	det
47	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fell	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 broken	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 broken	cc
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 broken	aux:pass
51	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	parataxis
52	into	into	ADP	_	53 millions	case
53	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 broken	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 pieces	case
55	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 millions	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	world				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly up not said to happen	to-infinitive	world not said here			with mirror; to heaven result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to heaven=Result
3	see	to-infinitive	world not said here	the angels			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus
4	fly	past	world			slippery property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	become	past	the glass				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	hold	could	world	glass	till last	scarcely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	slip	past	glass			from world's hands	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hand=Co-Patient
8	fall	past	glass not said here			to the earth	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme
9	break	past · passive				into millions of pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into million=Result

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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