The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 155

The wind was blowing fiercely across the land, and the clouds flying across the sky looked as gloomy as if it were night; the leaves were being blown from the trees; the water was foaming and seething and dashing upon the shore, and in the distance he saw the ships in great distress, dancing and tossing on the waves.

Who acts: wind, clouds, sky, water · What happens: blow, fly, look, be, foam, seethe · To what, where: land, sky, leaves, shore, ships, great distress

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 (wind, clouds, sky, water), 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 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blowing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blowing	aux
4	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	4 blowing	advmod
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blowing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clouds	det
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 looked	nsubj
13	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 clouds	acl
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 sky	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flying	obl
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blowing	parataxis
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 gloomy	advmod
19	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 night	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 night	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 night	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 night	cop
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gloomy	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 blown	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blown	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 blown	aux:pass
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 blown	aux:pass
30	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 looked	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blown	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 foaming	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 water	det
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 foaming	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 foaming	aux
38	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blowing	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 seething	cc
40	seething	seethe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 foaming	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dashing	cc
42	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 foaming	conj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 shore	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 shore	det
45	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dashing	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 saw	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 saw	cc
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 distance	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 distance	det
50	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 saw	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 saw	nsubj
52	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blowing	parataxis
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ships	det
54	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 saw	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 distress	case
56	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 distress	amod
57	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 ships	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 dancing	punct
59	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 saw	conj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 tossing	cc
61	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 dancing	conj
62	on	on	ADP	_	64 waves	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 waves	det
64	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 tossing	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · progressive	the wind		the land		fiercely property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	fly	gerund	the clouds not said here		the sky			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory
3	look	past	the clouds				gloomy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	sky			as night		tree rules
5	blow	past · passive		the leaves			from the trees	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from tree=Co-Patient
6	foam	past · progressive	the water					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seethe	gerund	the water not said here					vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
8	dash	gerund	the water not said here		the shore			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shore=Trajectory
9	see	past	wind	the ships	great distress		in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus
10	dance	gerund	wind not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	toss	gerund	wind not said here		the waves			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on wave=Destination

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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