Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 26

The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy: and when he came to the sea, it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very calm; and he went close to the edge of the waves, and said:

Who acts: fisherman, heart, it · What happens: go, be, come, look, say · To what, where: sea, edge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fisherman, heart, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heavy	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 heavy	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heavy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heavy	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 heavy	advmod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looked	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gloomy	cc
24	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blue	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 calm	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 calm	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 calm	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 calm	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 calm	advmod
30	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blue	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
35	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 went	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 edge	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 edge	det
38	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 waves	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 waves	det
41	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 edge	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fisherman			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	fisherman's heart		heavy property	tree rules
3	come	past	fisherman	the sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
4	look	past	it		blue property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	heart		calm property	tree rules
6	go	past	fisherman	the edge of the waves	close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
7	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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