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title: Very often, after a violent thunder-storm, a field of buckwheat appe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 1

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:14:1
# text = 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.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	blackened	blacken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	singed	singe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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:** «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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