Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 98

But they dragged him out of the room and up stairs to the garret, and threw him on the floor, in a dark corner, where no daylight shone, and there they left him. "

Who acts: firs, daylight · What happens: drag, throw, shine, leave · To what, where: splendor, room, floor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stairs	cc
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stairs	compound
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 room	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 garret	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garret	det
14	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stairs	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragged	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 floor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 corner	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 corner	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 corner	det
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 corner	amod
26	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shone	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 shone	advmod
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 daylight	det
30	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shone	nsubj
31	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 corner	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 left	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 left	cc
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 left	expl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 left	nsubj
36	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragged	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 left	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past	firs = fir	splendor	the room and up stairs to the garret		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out room=Initial_Location
2	throw	past	firs = fir not said here	splendor	the floor	in a dark corner	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on floor=Destination
3	shine	past	no daylight				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past	firs = fir	splendor	there		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: «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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