Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 111

And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads.

Who acts: heavens, lightnings, thunders, you · What happens: become, play, roll, see, swell up, crown · To what, where: sea, white foam

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 (heavens, lightnings, thunders, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 became	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heavens	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heavens	det
4	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
8	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clouds	amod
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 black	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 played	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 played	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lightnings	det
13	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	nsubj
14	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rolled	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thunders	det
18	thunders	thunder	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	nsubj
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 played	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seen	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 became	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obl
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 waves	amod
30	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 waves	amod
31	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seen	obl:agent
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swelling	punct
33	swelling	swell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 seen	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 swelling	compound:prt
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 mountains	case
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swelling	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 crowns	case
38	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swelling	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 foam	case
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 foam	amod
41	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 crowns	nmod
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 heads	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 heads	nmod:poss
44	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 foam	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	all heavens			black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	play	past	the lightnings				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	roll	past	the thunders				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	might · perfect	you		the sea		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	swell up	gerund	you not said here			like mountains; with crowns of white foam upon thunders's heads	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	crown			white foam upon thunders's heads			nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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