Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 28

When the dreadful storm had passed, the flowers and the corn raised their drooping heads in the pure still air, refreshed by the rain, but the buckwheat lay like a weed in the field, burnt to blackness by the lightning.

Who acts: dreadful storm, corn, buckwheat · What happens: pass, raise, droop, refresh, lie, burnt · To what, where: flowers, drooping heads, pure air, 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 (dreadful storm, corn, buckwheat), 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	6 passed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storm	amod
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flowers	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 raised	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corn	det
12	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raised	nsubj
13	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
15	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 heads	amod
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 raised	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
19	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 air	amod
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 air	advmod
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raised	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 refreshed	punct
23	refreshed	refresh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 air	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 rain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rain	det
26	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 refreshed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 lay	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 buckwheat	det
30	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 raised	parataxis
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 weed	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 weed	det
34	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 field	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 field	det
37	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 burnt	punct
39	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 field	acl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 blackness	case
41	blackness	blackness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 burnt	obl
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 lightning	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 lightning	det
44	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 burnt	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect	the dreadful storm	the flowers			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	raise	past	the corn	flowers's drooping heads	the pure air		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in air=Destination
3	droop	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	refresh	participle		the pure air not said here		by the rain	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	lie	past	the buckwheat		the field	like a weed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location
6	burnt	participle		the field not said here		to blackness; by the lightning	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: «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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