The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 88
When he came to the sea, the water was a dark-grey colour, and it was heaving against the shore.
Who acts: king, water · What happens: come, be, heave · To what, where: sea, grey colour
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 (king, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:3536): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 15 colour | advcl |
| 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 colour | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 colour | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 colour | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grey | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 14 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colour | amod |
| 15 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heaving | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heaving | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heaving | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heaving | aux |
| 20 | heaving | heave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 colour | conj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 shore | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shore | det |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heaving | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 colour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the water | a grey colour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | heave | past · progressive | water | against the shore | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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