Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 82

If a black heavy cloud arose, it was as if the sea said, "I can look dark and angry too;" and then the wind blew, and the waves turned to white foam as they rolled.

Who acts: black heavy cloud, it, I, wind, waves · What happens: arise, be, look, blow, turn, roll · To what, where: white foam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black heavy cloud, it, I, wind), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 arose	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloud	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloud	amod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloud	amod
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arose	nsubj
6	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 arose	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	cop
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 said	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 said	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 look	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 look	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 angry	cc
22	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dark	conj
23	too	too	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blew	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 blew	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blew	nsubj
30	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 turned	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 waves	det
34	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 turned	nsubj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 foam	case
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 foam	amod
38	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turned	obl
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 rolled	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rolled	nsubj
41	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 turned	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise a condition, not said to happen	past	a black heavy cloud				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be speech: assert	past	it			say property	tree rules
3	look in a quote	can	I			dark property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	blow	past	the wind		then		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	turn	past	the waves	white foam			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to foam=Trajectory
6	roll	past	waves = wave				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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