--- title: Then came a flash of light, as if the sun had rushed forth from the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:214:99 # text = 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. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 14 forth forth ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 flaming flame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 devouring devour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 amid amid NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/100/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/214/)