The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 9

But after a short time the woman gave birth to a little girl, who was as white as snow and as cold as ice.

Who acts: woman, little girl · What happens: give, be · To what, where: birth, little girl

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, little girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 girl	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 white	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 white	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 white	cop
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 white	advmod
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 snow	case
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 white	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cold	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 cold	advmod
23	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 white	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 ice	case
25	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cold	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the woman	birth	a little girl	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to girl=Recipient
2	is	past	a little girl				as snow; white property	tree rules
3	be		a little girl 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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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