The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 199

The sky was as black as ink, it was thundering and lightening, and the sea was tossing in great waves as high as church towers and mountains, and each had a white crest of foam.

Who acts: sky, sea · What happens: be, thunder, lighten, toss, have · To what, where: great waves, white crest

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, sea), 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 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 black	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 black	advmod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 ink	case
7	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 black	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thundering	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thundering	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thundering	aux
11	thundering	thunder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 black	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lightening	cc
13	lightening	lighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 thundering	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tossing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tossing	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tossing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tossing	aux
19	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 thundering	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 waves	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 waves	amod
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tossing	obl
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tossing	ccomp
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 towers	case
26	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 towers	compound
27	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 high	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mountains	cc
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 towers	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 had	advmod
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 black	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 crest	det
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 crest	amod
36	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 foam	case
38	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crest	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sky			as ink; black property	tree rules
2	thunder	past · progressive	sky				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lighten	gerund	sky not said here				vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	toss	past · progressive	the sea		great waves		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in wave=Destination
5	have	past		a white crest of foam			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient

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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