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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 15

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And now it worked much more evil than before; for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world, and when they got into people's eyes, there they stayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for that which was evil.

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**Who acts:** joke, some, pieces, people · **What happens:** work, be, fly, get, stay, see · **To what, where:** wide world, eyes, everything, eye

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joke, some, pieces, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:11:15
# text = And now it worked much more evil than before; for some of these pieces were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world, and when they got into people's eyes, there they stayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for that which was evil.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	46	expl	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
50	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
52	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	51	obj	_	_
53	perverted	pervert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	only	only	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
58	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	57	obl	_	_
62	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	64	nsubj	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | joke |  |  |  | now | evil *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  |  | as a grain of sand; hardly, large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  | the wide world |  | about *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 4 | **get** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  | people's eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination |
| 5 | **stay** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past | people | everything |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 7 | **pervert** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | people *not said here* | a eye |  |  |  | for that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 9 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | evil *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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