Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 129

But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the loft: and here, in a dark corner, where no daylight could enter, they left him.

Who acts: splendor, daylight · What happens: drag, enter, leave · To what, where: story, room, daylight

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendor, daylight), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 dragged	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragged	nsubj
3	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragged	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stairs	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stairs	cc
11	up	up	ADP	_	13 stairs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stairs	det
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dragged	obl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 loft	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 loft	det
16	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 here	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 here	cc
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dragged	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 corner	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 corner	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 corner	amod
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 enter	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 enter	advmod
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 daylight	det
28	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enter	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 enter	aux
30	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 corner	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 left	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 left	nsubj
33	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragged	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 left	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past	splendor	story	the room; here	up the stairs; into the loft	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out room=Initial_Location
2	enter	could	no daylight				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past	splendor	daylight			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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