Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 37

It was as cold and as clear as ice.

Who acts: water · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 cold	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clear	cc
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 clear	advmod
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clear	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	water					cold property	tree rules
2	be		water not said here					as ice	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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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