Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 27

I lay quite quiet," said the Wind, "but I silently touched a branch which had been brought by one of the handsomest of the young men, and the wood blazed up brightly, blazed brighter than all the rest.

Who acts: I, Wind, wood · What happens: lay, say, touch, bring, blaze up, blaze · To what, where: branch, wood · 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 (I, Wind, wood), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 quiet	advmod
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wind	det
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Wind	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Wind	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 touched	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 touched	nsubj
14	silently	silently	ADV	_	15 touched	advmod
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 branch	det
17	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 brought	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 brought	aux:pass
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 branch	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 brought	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 handsomest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 handsomest	det
26	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 one	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 men	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 men	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 handsomest	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 blazed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 blazed	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wood	det
34	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 blazed	nsubj
35	blazed	blaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 wood	acl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 blazed	compound:prt
37	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	35 blazed	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 blazed	punct
39	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
40	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 blazed	xcomp
41	than	than	ADP	_	44 rest	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 rest	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rest	det
44	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brighter	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	present	I		quiet property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wind			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	touch	past	I	a branch	silently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme branch=Co-Theme
4	bring	past · perfect · passive		a branch	by one of the handsomest	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
5	blaze up	participle		the wood not said here	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	blaze	past	the wood		bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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