Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 87

In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of blue sky, but towards the south all was red, as if a dreadful storm was rising.

Who acts: all, dreadful storm · What happens: be, rise

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 (all, dreadful storm), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 heavens	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heavens	det
6	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 middle	nmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 red	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 piece	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 piece	amod
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sky	case
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sky	amod
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 piece	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 red	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 red	cc
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 south	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 south	det
19	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 red	obl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 red	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 red	cop
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rising	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 rising	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 rising	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 storm	det
27	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 storm	amod
28	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rising	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 rising	aux
30	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 red	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all					towards the south; red property	tree rules
2	rise a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	a dreadful storm						vn assuming_position-50 «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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