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title: Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly. Who acts: this, pieces. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 14

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Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly.

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**Who acts:** this, pieces · **What happens:** make, be, wear, see · **To what, where:** Other pieces, spectacles, pieces, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, pieces), 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:pg27200:170:14
# text = Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly.
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	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
23	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | Other pieces |  | spectacles |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into spectacle=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | for those; dreadful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 4 | **see** | could | pieces *= piece* | nothing |  |  |  | either, rightly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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