Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 132

The apple-tree was not broken down; for Anthony himself was struck with a fever, which caused him to break down, and confined him to his bed.

Who acts: fever, tree · What happens: not break down, strike, cause, break down, confine · To what, where: apple tree, tree, bed

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 (fever, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 apple	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 broken	advmod
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 broken	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 struck	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Anthony	case
11	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 struck	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 struck	aux:pass
14	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 broken	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 fever	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fever	det
17	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caused	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 caused	nsubj
20	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fever	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caused	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 break	mark
23	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 caused	xcomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 break	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 confined	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 confined	cc
27	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 confined	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 confined	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not break down	past · passive		the apple tree			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	strike	past · passive		tree		for Anthony; with a fever	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fever=Instrument
3	cause	past	a fever	tree			tree rules
4	break down	to-infinitive	tree not said here				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	confine	past		tree	tree's bed		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination

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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