Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 110

Then the man went shivering with fear; and as he was going down to the shore a dreadful storm arose, so that the trees and the very rocks shook.

Who acts: man, dreadful storm, trees · What happens: go, shiver, go down, arise, shake · To what, where: shore

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, dreadful storm, trees), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shivering	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 fear	case
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shivering	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 storm	det
19	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 storm	amod
20	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arose	nsubj
21	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shore	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shook	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	31 shook	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 shook	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shook	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rocks	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rocks	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 rocks	advmod
30	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 trees	conj
31	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the man		then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shiver	gerund	the man not said here			with fear	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go down	past · progressive	man			to the shore; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	arise	past	a dreadful storm	the shore not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shore=Theme
5	shake	past	the trees and the rocks				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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