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title: It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that had got into his eye; and poor Kay had got another piece right in his heart. Who acts: clock, magic mirror, poor Kay. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 64

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It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that had got into his eye; and poor Kay had got another piece right in his heart.

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**Who acts:** clock, magic mirror, poor Kay · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** one, eye, piece, heart

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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 (clock, magic mirror, poor Kay), 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:pg1597:11:64
# text = It was just one of those pieces of glass from the magic mirror that had got into his eye; and poor Kay had got another piece right in his heart.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | clock | one |  |  |  | of that pieces of glass from the magic mirror | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | the magic mirror |  |  | heart's eye |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | poor Kay | another piece |  | heart's heart |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus |

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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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