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title: And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightni… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. Who acts: heavens, lightnings, thunders, you. A sentence of «Grimms' F
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 111

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And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads.

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**Who acts:** heavens, lightnings, thunders, you · **What happens:** become, play, roll, see, swell up, crown · **To what, where:** sea, white foam

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 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 (heavens, lightnings, thunders, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:11:111
# text = And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thunders	thunder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | all heavens |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | past | the lightnings |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **roll** | past | the thunders |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | might · perfect | you |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **swell up** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like mountains; with crowns of white foam upon thunders's heads | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **crown** |  |  | white foam upon thunders's heads |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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