Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 68

He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water’s brink, and said:

Who acts: fish, water, mighty whirlwind · What happens: come, be, blow, roll, go, say · To what, where: seashore, waves · 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 (fish, water, mighty whirlwind), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 seashore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seashore	det
6	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 black	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 black	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 black	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 black	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 black	advmod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 muddy	cc
15	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 black	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 blew	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 whirlwind	det
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whirlwind	amod
20	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blew	nsubj
21	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 waves	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 waves	det
24	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 blew	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rolled	cc
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 blew	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rolled	obj
28	about	about	ADV	_	26 rolled	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 near	advmod
34	near	near	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 near	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 brink	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 brink	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 water	case
42	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 could	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 said	cc
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	fish		the seashore	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the water			black property	tree rules
3	be		the water not said here				tree rules
4	blow	past	a mighty whirlwind		the waves		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	roll	past	a mighty whirlwind not said here	waves = wave		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent
6	go	past	fish			near property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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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