Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 17
In winter-time Snow-White set light to the fire, and put on the kettle, after polishing it until it was like gold for brightness.
Who acts: Snow · What happens: put, polish, be · To what, where: kettle, Snow
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 winter | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | obl |
| 5 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Snow | punct |
| 7 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 light | amod |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | compound |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 light | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 light | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 kettle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kettle | det |
| 18 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 polishing | punct |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 polishing | mark |
| 21 | polishing | polish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 put | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 polishing | obj |
| 23 | until | until | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gold | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 gold | cop |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 polishing | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 brightness | case |
| 29 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gold | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the kettle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on kettle=Destination | |||||
| 2 | polish | gerund | Snow | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Snow | until gold | for brightness | tree rules |
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.
Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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