Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 1

Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass--one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is?

Who acts: you, magnifying glass, round spectacle glasses, everything, glass · What happens: know, mean, magnify, make, look, be · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magnifying glass, round spectacle glasses, everything), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 course	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 meant	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 meant	aux:pass
7	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 know	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 glass	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glass	det
10	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 glass	amod
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meant	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 glass	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 glasses	case
15	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 glasses	det
16	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 glasses	amod
17	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glasses	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 spectacle	punct
19	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 make	nsubj
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 glasses	acl:relcl
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 make	obj
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hundred	det
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bigger	obl:unmarked
27	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 look	xcomp
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 is	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 is	nsubj
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 bigger	advcl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	you		of course	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mean	present · passive	a magnifying glass			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
3	magnify	gerund				vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	make	present	that round spectacle glasses	everything		tree rules
5	look	infinitive	everything not said here		big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	be	present	glass			vn exist-47.1 «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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