The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 22
When he came there the sea was quite green and yellow, and was no longer shining.
Who acts: man, sea · What happens: come, be, shine
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 (man, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 green | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 green | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 green | advmod |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 yellow | cc |
| 11 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 green | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shining | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shining | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shining | aux |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 shining | advmod |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the sea | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the sea not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | shine | past · progressive | man not said here | long property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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: «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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