Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 40

On certain pages the writing often appears so pale or so blurred that the page becomes a blank.

Who acts: writing, page · What happens: appear, blur, become · To what, where: certain pages, blank

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (writing, page), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 pages	case
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pages	amod
3	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 appears	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 writing	det
5	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appears	nsubj
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 appears	advmod
7	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 pale	advmod
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appears	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 blurred	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 blurred	advmod
12	blurred	blur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pale	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 becomes	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 page	det
15	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	nsubj
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 blurred	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blank	det
18	blank	blank	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	the writing		certain pages	often, pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on page=Location
2	blur	participle	the writing not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	the page	a blank			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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