The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 156

Still the sky was very blue in the middle, although at the sides it was an angry red as in a great storm.

Who acts: sky · What happens: be · To what, where: middle

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 (sky), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 blue	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sky	det
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blue	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 blue	advmod
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sides	punct
11	although	although	SCONJ	_	14 sides	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 sides	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sides	det
14	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blue	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 storm	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 storm	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 storm	det
18	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 storm	amod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 storm	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 storm	case
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 storm	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 storm	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 storm	amod
24	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sides	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sky			the middle	still	blue property	tree rules
2	is	past	sky					as a angry red great storm	tree rules

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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