Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 57

Look in this glass, Gerda," said he; and she saw how every flake of snow was magnified, and looked like a beautiful flower or a glittering star. "

Who acts: you, Gerda, grandmother · What happens: look, say, see, magnify, glitter · To what, where: glass, flake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Gerda, grandmother), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 glass	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 glass	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Gerda	punct
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Gerda	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Gerda	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 magnified	advmod
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 flake	det
17	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 magnified	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 snow	case
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flake	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 magnified	aux:pass
21	magnified	magnify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 saw	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 flower	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 flower	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flower	amod
28	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 star	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 star	det
31	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 star	amod
32	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flower	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		this glass		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Gerda				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see in a quote	past	grandmother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	magnify in a quote	past · passive		every flake of snow			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	look in a quote	past	grandmother not said here			like a beautiful flower or a glittering star	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	glitter in a quote	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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