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title: The trunks were moved, the tree was pulled out and thrown--rather ha… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The trunks were moved, the tree was pulled out and thrown--rather hard, it is true--down on the floor, but a man drew him towards the stairs, where the daylight shone. Who acts: quantity, man, daylight. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 188

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The trunks were moved, the tree was pulled out and thrown--rather hard, it is true--down on the floor, but a man drew him towards the stairs, where the daylight shone.

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**Who acts:** quantity, man, daylight · **What happens:** move, pull out, throw, be, draw, shine · **To what, where:** trunks, tree, floor, stairs

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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 (quantity, man, 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:pg1597:10:188
# text = The trunks were moved, the tree was pulled out and thrown--rather hard, it is true--down on the floor, but a man drew him towards the stairs, where the daylight shone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past · passive |  | the trunks |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pull out** | past · passive |  | the tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | participle |  |  |  | the floor |  | down, hard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | quantity |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw** | past | a man | Tree |  | the stairs |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards stair=Destination |
| 6 | **shine** | past | the daylight |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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