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title: Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly. Who acts: that, people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 19

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Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly.

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**Who acts:** that, people · **What happens:** put, be, see · **To what, where:** Other pieces, spectacles, sad affair, glasses

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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 (that, 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:pg1597:11:19
# text = Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | Other pieces |  | spectacles |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in spectacle=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | that | a sad affair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | present | people |  |  | pieces's glasses |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on glass=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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