Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 17
The kettle was of brass and shone like gold, so brightly was it polished.
Who acts: kettle, brass · What happens: be, shine, polish · To what, where: kettle
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 (kettle, brass), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kettle | det |
| 2 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brass | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brass | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 brass | case |
| 5 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shone | cc |
| 7 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brass | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 polished | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 polished | advmod |
| 12 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 15 polished | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 polished | aux:pass |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 polished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brass | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the kettle | of brass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | the kettle not said here | like gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | polish | past · passive | brass not said here | kettle | brightly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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