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title: This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out: Who acts: sea. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 47

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This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out:

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** look, be, cry out · **To what, where:** dark grey colour

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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 (sea), 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:pg2591:11:47
# text = This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out:
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	overspread	overspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	curling	curling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the sea | a dark grey colour |  |  | time |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme colour=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with curling waves and the ridges of foam; overspread *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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