Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 19

Stranger guests came from far and near, music sounded, goblets clashed, and I," said the Wind, "was not able to drown the noise.

Who acts: Stranger guests, music, goblets, whir, Wind · What happens: come, sound, clash, say, not be, drown · To what, where: noise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stranger guests, music, goblets, whir), 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	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guests	compound
2	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 far	case
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 near	cc
7	near	near	ADV	_	5 far	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sounded	punct
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sounded	nsubj
10	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clashed	punct
12	goblets	goblet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 clashed	nsubj
13	clashed	clash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sounded	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 I	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 I	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Wind	det
21	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 able	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Wind	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Wind	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 able	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 able	advmod
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 drown	mark
28	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 noise	det
30	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drown	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Stranger guests			tree rules
2	sound	past	music			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	clash	past	goblets			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	whir			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	the Wind		able property	tree rules
6	drown	to-infinitive	the Wind not said here	the noise		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=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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