Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 10

At the back of the cart stood a fir tree, quite green still, and with tinsel on its twigs; it had been used on Christmas eve, and now it was thrown out into the street, and the dustman had stood it up at the back of his cart.

Who acts: dustman · What happens: stand, use, throw out, stand up · To what, where: fir tree, back, cart, Christmas eve, street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dustman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	nmod
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 green	punct
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 green	advmod
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stood	conj
14	still	still	ADV	_	13 green	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tinsel	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tinsel	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 tinsel	case
18	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 twigs	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 twigs	nmod:poss
21	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tinsel	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 used	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 used	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 used	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 used	aux:pass
26	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stood	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 eve	case
28	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 eve	compound
29	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 used	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thrown	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 thrown	cc
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 thrown	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 thrown	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 thrown	aux:pass
35	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 used	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 thrown	compound:prt
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 street	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 street	det
39	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 thrown	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stood	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 stood	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 dustman	det
43	dustman	dustman	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stood	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 stood	aux
45	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 used	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 stood	obj
47	up	up	ADP	_	45 stood	compound:prt
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 back	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 back	det
50	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stood	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 cart	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 cart	nmod:poss
53	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 back	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a fir tree	the back of the cart		with tinsel on cart's twigs	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme at back=Destination
2	use	past · perfect · passive		cart	Christmas eve			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	throw out	past · passive		cart		now	into the street result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into street=Result
4	stand up	past · perfect	the dustman	cart	the back of dustman's cart			tree rules

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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