The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 13

In winter Snow-white lit the fire and put on the kettle, which was made of brass, but so beautifully polished that it shone like gold.

Who acts: fire · What happens: light, put, make, polish, shine · To what, where: fire, kettle

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (fire), 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	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obl
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	obl
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Snow	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 winter	amod
6	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lit	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 kettle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kettle	det
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 made	aux:pass
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 kettle	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 brass	case
19	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 polished	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 polished	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 polished	advmod
23	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	24 polished	advmod
24	polished	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 shone	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shone	nsubj
27	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 polished	advcl
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past		the fire		winter		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	put	participle			the kettle			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on kettle=Destination
3	make	past · passive		the kettle			of brass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	polish	past					beautifully property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	shine	past	fire				like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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