--- title: I lay quite quiet," said the Wind, "but I silently touched a branch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:212:27 # text = 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. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 3 quite quite ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 silently silently ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 handsomest handsome ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 35 blazed blaze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 brightly brightly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 blazed blaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 40 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 xcomp _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 44 det:predet _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/28/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Wind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/212/)