Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 99

Then came a flash of light, as if the sun had rushed forth from the sky, flaming, burning, all-devouring, and darkness returned amid a rolling crash of thunder.

Who acts: flash, sun, darkness, light, thunder · What happens: come, rush, flame, burn, devour, return · To what, where: sky, amid

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flash, sun, darkness, light), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flash	det
4	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flash	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rushed	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 rushed	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 rushed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rushed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rushed	aux
13	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	parataxis
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 rushed	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 sky	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rushed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flaming	punct
19	flaming	flame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 burning	punct
21	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 flaming	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 devouring	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 devouring	advmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 all	punct
25	devouring	devour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 burning	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 returned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 returned	cc
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 returned	nsubj
29	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
30	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 returned	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 crash	det
32	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 crash	amod
33	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 returned	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 thunder	case
35	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crash	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a flash of light			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rush a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the sun		the sky		forth property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sky=Trajectory
3	flame	gerund	a flash of light not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	gerund	a flash of light not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	devour	gerund	a flash of light not said here					vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	return	past	darkness	amid				vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent amid=Theme crash=Eventuality
7	roll	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	flash		light					nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent
9	crash		thunder					nom crash «event 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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