The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 53

When he came to the sea, the water was all violet and dark-blue, and dull and thick, and no longer green and yellow, but it was still smooth.

Who acts: Go, water · What happens: come, be · To what, where: sea

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 (Go, 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	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	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 violet	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 violet	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 violet	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 violet	advmod
12	violet	violet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 blue	cc
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blue	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 violet	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dull	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dull	cc
19	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thick	cc
21	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dull	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 green	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 green	cc
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 green	advmod
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dull	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 yellow	cc
28	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 green	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 smooth	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 smooth	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 smooth	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 smooth	cop
33	still	still	ADV	_	34 smooth	advmod
34	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dull	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Go	the sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the water			all, violet property	tree rules
3	be		the water not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	water		still	smooth property	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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