Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 2

When any one takes one of these and holds it to his eye, and looks at a drop of water from the pond yonder, he sees above a thousand wonderful creatures that are otherwise never discerned in the water.

Who acts: one, he · What happens: take, hold, look, see, not discern · To what, where: one, glass, thousand wonderful creatures, water

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 (one, he), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 takes	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looks	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 takes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 these	case
7	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 holds	cc
9	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 takes	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 holds	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 eye	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eye	nmod:poss
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holds	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looks	cc
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 drop	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drop	det
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looks	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drop	nmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 pond	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pond	det
24	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drop	nmod
25	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	24 pond	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sees	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sees	nsubj
28	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 looks	conj
29	above	above	ADP	_	33 creatures	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thousand	det
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 creatures	nummod
32	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 creatures	amod
33	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sees	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 discerned	obj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 discerned	aux:pass
36	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	38 discerned	advmod
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 discerned	advmod
38	discerned	discern	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 creatures	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 water	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 water	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 discerned	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	any one	one of these			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	hold	present	any one not said here	glass		to his eye	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	look	present				at a drop of water from the pond	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at drop=Theme
4	see	present	he		thousand wonderful creatures		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not discern	present · passive		thousand wonderful creatures	the water	otherwise property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: that=Stimulus

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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