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title: Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass--one of those… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass--one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is? Who acts: you, magnifying glass, round spectacle glasses, everything. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 1

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Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass--one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is?

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**Who acts:** you, magnifying glass, round spectacle glasses, everything, glass · **What happens:** know, mean, magnify, make, look, be · **To what, where:** everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magnifying glass, round spectacle glasses, everything), 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:pg27200:23:1
# text = Of course you know what is meant by a magnifying glass--one of those round spectacle-glasses that make everything look a hundred times bigger than it is?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	obj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  | of course | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present · passive | a magnifying glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 3 | **magnify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present | that round spectacle glasses | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | infinitive | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **be** | present | glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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