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title: It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror wh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly. Who acts: clock, that. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 78

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It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly.

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**Who acts:** clock, that · **What happens:** be, hear, turn, reflect · **To what, where:** one, magic mirror, everything, clock

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, 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:pg5615:8:78
# text = It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	splinters	splinter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | clock | one |  |  |  | of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect · passive |  | the magic mirror |  |  |  | about *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **turn** | past | that | everything |  |  |  | great *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **reflect** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  | clock |  | small *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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