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title: But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the lof… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the loft: and here, in a dark corner, where no daylight could enter, they left him. Who acts: splendor, daylight. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 129

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But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the loft: and here, in a dark corner, where no daylight could enter, they left him.

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**Who acts:** splendor, daylight · **What happens:** drag, enter, leave · **To what, where:** story, room, daylight

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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 (splendor, daylight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:10:129
# text = But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the loft: and here, in a dark corner, where no daylight could enter, they left him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | splendor | story |  | the room; here |  | up the stairs; into the loft | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **enter** | could | no daylight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | splendor | daylight |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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.

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**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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