Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 1

Very often, after a violent thunder-storm, a field of buckwheat appears blackened and singed, as if a flame of fire had passed over it.

Who acts: field, fire · What happens: appear, blacken, singe, pass, flame · To what, where: flame, field

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field, fire), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	15 appears	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 often	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	9 storm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
6	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 storm	amod
7	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 storm	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 thunder	punct
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appears	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 storm	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appears	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 buckwheat	case
14	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 field	nmod
15	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	blackened	blacken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 appears	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 singed	cc
18	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 blackened	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 passed	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 passed	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 passed	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flame	det
23	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passed	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flame	nmod
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 passed	aux
27	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 singed	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 passed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	a field of buckwheat			after a violent thunder storm	often property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	blacken	participle	a field of buckwheat not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	singe	participle	a field of buckwheat not said here					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	pass a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a flame of fire	field			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over it=Destination
5	flame		fire					nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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