--- title: In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spin… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/7/) [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/) / 7 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 7 In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth. **Who acts:** beautiful landscapes, anyone, you · **What happens:** look, boil, turn, appear, stand, distort · **To what, where:** best persons, frights, heads, faces, mole, nose 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 (beautiful landscapes, anyone, you), 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:pg1597:11:7 # text = In this mirror the most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the best persons were turned into frights, or appeared to stand on their heads; their faces were so distorted that they were not to be recognised; and if anyone had a mole, you might be sure that it would be magnified and spread over both nose and mouth. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 landscapes landscape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 spinach spinach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 frights fright NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 distorted distort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 recognised recognise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 46 nsubj _ _ 46 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 51 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 53 cop _ _ 53 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 parataxis _ _ 54 that that SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 56 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 57 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 58 aux:pass _ _ 58 magnified magnify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 ccomp _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 conj _ _ 61 over over ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 63 det _ _ 63 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the beautiful landscapes | | | | | like boiled spinach; in this mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mirror=Theme | | 2 | **boil** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | past · passive | | the best persons | | frights | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into fright=Trajectory | | 4 | **appear** | past | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **stand** | to-infinitive | | | | Mirror's heads | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | | 6 | **distort** | past · passive | | Mirror's faces | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | | 7 | **not** **recognise** | past · passive | | faces *= face* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 8 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anyone | a mole | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient | | 9 | **is** | might | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **magnify** | would · passive | | mole | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 11 | **spread** | participle | | | | both nose and mouth | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over nose=Location | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/8/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/)