Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 188

The trunks were moved, the tree was pulled out and thrown--rather hard, it is true--down on the floor, but a man drew him towards the stairs, where the daylight shone.

Who acts: quantity, man, daylight · What happens: move, pull out, throw, be, draw, shine · To what, where: trunks, tree, floor, stairs

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 (quantity, man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trunks	det
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moved	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux:pass
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulled	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pulled	aux:pass
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 moved	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thrown	cc
12	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pulled	conj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 hard	punct
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 thrown	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thrown	conj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 down	punct
21	down	down	ADV	_	12 thrown	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thrown	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drew	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 drew	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drew	nsubj
29	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 drew	obj
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 stairs	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stairs	det
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shone	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 shone	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 daylight	det
37	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shone	nsubj
38	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 drew	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		the trunks			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	pull out	past · passive		the tree			tree rules
3	throw	participle			the floor	down, hard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination
4	is	present	quantity			true property	tree rules
5	draw	past	a man	Tree	the stairs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards stair=Destination
6	shine	past	the daylight				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: «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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