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title: But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was stick… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, whose whole soul was devoted to him. Who acts: peculiar, sun, glass, heart. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1, with its depende
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 80

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But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, whose whole soul was devoted to him.

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**Who acts:** peculiar, sun, glass, heart · **What happens:** be, get, stick, make, tease, devote · **To what, where:** glass, eye, heart, sun, little Gerda, whole soul

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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 (peculiar, sun, glass, heart), 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:pg1597:11:80
# text = But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, whose whole soul was devoted to him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | peculiar | the glass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | sun | the glass *not said here* |  | sun's eye |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stick** | past · progressive | the glass |  |  | sun's heart |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in heart=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | sun's heart | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tease** | infinitive | sun *not said here* | little Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Patient |
| 6 | **devote** | past · passive |  | whole soul | sun |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |

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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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