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title: In winter-time Snow-White set light to the fire, and put on the kett… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: In winter-time Snow-White set light to the fire, and put on the kettle, after polishing it until it was like gold for brightness. Who acts: Snow. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 17

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In winter-time Snow-White set light to the fire, and put on the kettle, after polishing it until it was like gold for brightness.

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**Who acts:** Snow · **What happens:** put, polish, be · **To what, where:** kettle, Snow

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (Snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:23:17
# text = In winter-time Snow-White set light to the fire, and put on the kettle, after polishing it until it was like gold for brightness.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	polishing	polish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | the kettle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on kettle=Destination |
| 2 | **polish** | gerund |  | Snow |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Snow |  |  |  | until gold | for brightness | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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