The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 38

One day he was in capital spirits because he had made a looking-glass which reflected everything that was good and beautiful in such a way that it dwindled almost to nothing, but anything that was bad and ugly stood out very clearly and looked much worse.

Who acts: rain, looking glass, glass, anything · What happens: be, make, look, reflect, dwindle, stand out · To what, where: capital spirits, looking glass, everything, way, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, looking glass, glass, anything), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spirits	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spirits	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spirits	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spirits	case
6	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spirits	amod
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 spirits	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 glass	det
13	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 glass	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 reflected	nsubj
17	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glass	acl:relcl
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 reflected	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 good	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 good	cop
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 everything	acl:relcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beautiful	cc
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 good	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 way	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reflected	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 dwindled	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dwindled	nsubj
30	dwindled	dwindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 way	acl:relcl
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 nothing	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 nothing	case
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 dwindled	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stood	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 stood	cc
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 stood	nsubj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 bad	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 bad	cop
39	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 anything	acl:relcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ugly	cc
41	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bad	conj
42	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 stood	compound:prt
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 clearly	advmod
45	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	42 stood	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 looked	cc
47	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stood	conj
48	much	much	ADV	_	49 worse	advmod
49	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 looked	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spirits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	rain		capital spirits	day		tree rules
2	make	past · perfect	rain	a looking glass				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Product
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	reflect	past	a looking glass	everything	such way			tree rules
5	is	past					good property	tree rules
6	be							tree rules
7	dwindle	past	glass	nothing				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient nothing=Extent
8	is	past					bad property	tree rules
9	be							tree rules
10	stand out	past	anything				clearly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	look	past	anything not said here				bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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