Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 131

I will break down the apple-tree, and tear it up by the roots; never more shall it blossom or bear fruit."

Who acts: I, more · What happens: break down, tear up, blossom, bear · To what, where: apple tree, sensation, fruit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, more), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 break	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 apple	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tear	cc
11	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 break	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tear	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 tear	compound:prt
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 roots	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roots	det
16	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tear	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 blossom	punct
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 blossom	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 blossom	aux
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 blossom	nsubj
22	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 break	parataxis
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 bear	cc
24	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 blossom	conj
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bear	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break down	future	I	the apple tree		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	tear up	infinitive	I not said here	sensation	by the roots	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	blossom	shall	more			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	bear	infinitive	more not said here	fruit		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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: «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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