--- title: When the dreadful storm had passed, the flowers and the corn raised… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Buckwheat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/) / 28 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:14:28 # text = 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. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 drooping droop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 refreshed refresh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 buckwheat buckwheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 burnt burnt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 blackness blackness NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/29/) - ↑ back to [The Buckwheat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/14/)