The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 121

The sea was quite black and thick, and it was breaking high on the beach; the foam was flying about, and the wind was blowing; everything looked bleak.

Who acts: sea, foam, wind, everything · What happens: be, break, fly, blow, look · To what, where: beach, bleak

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of 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, foam, wind, everything), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 black	advmod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thick	cc
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 black	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 breaking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 breaking	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 breaking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 breaking	aux
12	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 black	advcl
13	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 breaking	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 beach	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beach	det
16	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breaking	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 flying	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foam	det
19	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flying	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 flying	aux
21	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 black	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 flying	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 blowing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 blowing	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wind	det
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blowing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 blowing	aux
28	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 flying	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
30	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
32	bleak	bleak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sea			black property	tree rules
2	be		the sea not said here				tree rules
3	break	past · progressive	sea		the beach	high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location
4	fly	past · progressive	the foam			about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	blow	past · progressive	the wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	look	past	everything	bleak			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bleak=Attribute

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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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