Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 16
In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob.
Who acts: white · What happens: light, hang · To what, where: fire, kettle, hob
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (white), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 7 lit | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 white | det |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 white | nsubj |
| 4 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 white | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 white | punct |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lit | nsubj |
| 7 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lit | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hung | cc |
| 11 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lit | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kettle | det |
| 13 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hung | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hob | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hob | det |
| 16 | hob | hob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | the white | the fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the white not said here | the kettle | the hob | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme on hob=Destination |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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