Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 47
This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out:
Who acts: sea · What happens: look, be, cry out · To what, where: dark grey colour
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 (sea), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 colour | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colour | amod |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colour | amod |
| 9 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 overspread | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 overspread | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overspread | cop |
| 13 | overspread | overspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 waves | case |
| 15 | curling | curling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waves | compound |
| 16 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 overspread | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ridges | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ridges | det |
| 19 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 waves | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 foam | case |
| 21 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ridges | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 cried | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overspread | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 cried | compound:prt |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the sea | a dark grey colour | time | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme colour=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | the sea not said here | with curling waves and the ridges of foam; overspread property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | sea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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