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title: One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever. Who acts: demon, looking glass, power.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Story the First. Which describes a looking-glass and the broken fragments, sentence 2

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One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever.

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**Who acts:** demon, looking glass, power · **What happens:** be, make, look, have, reflect, shrink · **To what, where:** merry mood, looking glass, power, everything, size

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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 (demon, looking glass, power), 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:pg27200:170:2
# text = One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	shrink	shrink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
39	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	conj	_	_
51	than	than	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | demon |  |  | a merry mood |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | demon | a looking glass |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Product |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past | a looking glass | the power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | the power *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 6 | **reflect** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shrink** | present | power |  |  |  |  | to nothing *result*; almost *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to nothing=Result |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | worthless *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **increase** | past · passive |  | everything |  | size |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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