Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 86

But when he came to the shore the wind was raging and the sea was tossed up and down in boiling waves, and the ships were in trouble, and rolled fearfully upon the tops of the billows.

Who acts: fisherman, wind, ships · What happens: come, rage, toss up, be, roll · To what, where: shore, sea, trouble, tops

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, wind, ships), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	32 rolled	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rolled	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raging	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 raging	aux
11	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tossed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tossed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tossed	aux:pass
16	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 raging	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 tossed	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 down	cc
19	down	down	ADV	_	16 tossed	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 waves	case
21	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waves	compound
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 down	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trouble	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 trouble	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ships	det
26	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 trouble	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 trouble	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 trouble	case
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rolled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rolled	cc
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	32 rolled	advmod
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 tops	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tops	det
36	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rolled	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 billows	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 billows	det
39	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tops	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	fisherman		the shore		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location
2	rage	past · progressive	the wind				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	toss up	past · passive		the sea			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	the ships		trouble		tree rules
5	roll	past			the tops of the billows	fearfully property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon top=Trajectory

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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