The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 78

It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly.

Who acts: clock, that · What happens: be, hear, turn, reflect · To what, where: one, magic mirror, everything, clock

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 (clock, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 splinters	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 splinters	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 splinters	amod
7	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 glass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 glass	det
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 splinters	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 mirror	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mirror	det
13	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mirror	compound
14	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glass	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 heard	nsubj:pass
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mirror	acl:relcl
19	about	about	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	parataxis
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 turned	obj
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 turned	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 good	cc
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 great	conj
27	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 turned	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reflected	obl
30	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reflected	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ugly	cc
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 small	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	clock	one		of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror	tree rules
2	hear	present · perfect · passive		the magic mirror		about property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	turn	past	that	everything		great property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
4	reflect	participle	that not said here		clock	small property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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