Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 34

These young trees, and they were always the finest looking, retained their branches; they were laid on carts, and the horses drew them out of the wood.

Who acts: firs, horses · What happens: be, look, retain, lay, draw · To what, where: branches, firs, carts, wood

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 (firs, horses), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 trees	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finest	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finest	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finest	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 finest	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 finest	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 finest	det
10	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 trees	conj
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 finest	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 retained	punct
13	retained	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looking	ccomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 branches	nmod:poss
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 retained	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laid	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laid	aux:pass
19	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 retained	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 carts	case
21	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 laid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drew	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horses	det
25	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laid	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drew	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 wood	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wood	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wood	det
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	firs = fir			always, fine property	tree rules
2	look	gerund	firs = fir not said here				tree rules
3	retain	past	firs = fir not said here	firs's branches			tree rules
4	lay	past · passive		firs = fir	carts		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on cart=Destination
5	draw	past	the horses	firs = fir	the wood		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out wood=Initial_Location

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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