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title: In winter Snow-white lit the fire and put on the kettle, which was m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 13

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg503:36:13
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	polished	polish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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:** «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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