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title: But it was not gone; it was one of those bits of the looking-glass--… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was not gone; it was one of those bits of the looking-glass--that magic mirror, of which we have spoken--the ugly glass which made everything great and good appear small and ugly, while all that was wicked and bad became more visible, and every little fault could be plainly seen. Who acts: ar
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 42

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But it was not gone; it was one of those bits of the looking-glass--that magic mirror, of which we have spoken--the ugly glass which made everything great and good appear small and ugly, while all that was wicked and bad became more visible, and every little fault could be plainly seen.

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**Who acts:** arm, we, ugly glass, that, small · **What happens:** not be, be, look, speak, make, appear · **To what, where:** one, everything, little fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm, we, ugly glass, that), 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:pg27200:171:42
# text = But it was not gone; it was one of those bits of the looking-glass--that magic mirror, of which we have spoken--the ugly glass which made everything great and good appear small and ugly, while all that was wicked and bad became more visible, and every little fault could be plainly seen.
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	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|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	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	33	obj	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
39	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	nsubj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
50	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
51	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	52	advmod	_	_
52	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
55	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	57	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	aux:pass	_	_
60	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | arm |  |  |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | arm | one |  |  |  | of that bits of the looking glass and that magic mirror | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | the ugly glass | everything |  |  |  | great *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 6 | **appear** | present | the ugly glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **become** | past | small |  |  |  |  | visible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **see** | could · passive |  | every little fault |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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