The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 106

But they dragged it out of the room, and up the stairs to the lumber-room, and put it in a dark corner, where no ray of light could penetrate.

Who acts: servants, ray · What happens: drag, put, penetrate, ray · To what, where: part, room, dark corner, light

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, ray), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut 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	to	to	ADP	_	18 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
16	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 room	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 lumber	punct
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragged	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dragged	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
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	21 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 penetrate	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 penetrate	advmod
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 ray	det
30	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 penetrate	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 light	case
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ray	nmod
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 penetrate	aux
34	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 corner	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past	servants = servant	part	the room	up the stairs; to the lumber room	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme out room=Initial_Location to room=Destination
2	put	infinitive	servants = servant not said here	part	a dark corner		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in corner=Destination
3	penetrate	could	no ray of light				vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	ray			light			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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