--- title: One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. Who acts: he, power, that. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Snow Queen, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/) / 6 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 6 One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. **Who acts:** he, power, that · **What happens:** be, make, cause, reflect, look, show · **To what, where:** good humor, mirror, power, nothing, ugliness 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 (he, power, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:11:6 # text = One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 humor humor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 causing cause VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 reflected reflect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 32 therein therein ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 36 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 40 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 44 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 51 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 xcomp _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux:pass _ _ 53 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 54 magnified magnify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 xcomp _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 conj _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 ugliness ugliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | a good humor | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect | he | a mirror | | | | with the power | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Product | | 3 | **cause** | gerund | the power *not said here* | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 4 | **is** | past | that | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | that *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **reflect** | past · passive | | power | | | | therein *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | poor *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **is** | past | | | | | | for nothing | tree rules | | 9 | **look** | past | | | | | | ugly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **show** | past · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 11 | **magnify** | participle | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 12 | **increase** | participle | | | | ugliness | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/7/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/)