Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 168

The blossoms are often plucked," said Anthony; "the fruit is stolen and the branches broken without a thankful thought of their profusion and beauty.

Who acts: Anthony · What happens: pluck, say, steal, break, think · To what, where: blossoms, fruit, branches, profusion · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Anthony), 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	2 blossoms	det
2	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plucked	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plucked	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 plucked	advmod
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plucked	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 plucked	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 stolen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 stolen	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fruit	det
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stolen	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stolen	aux:pass
15	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 branches	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 branches	det
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stolen	obj
19	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 branches	acl
20	without	without	ADP	_	23 thought	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thought	det
22	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thought	amod
23	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broken	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 profusion	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 profusion	nmod:poss
26	profusion	profusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beauty	cc
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 profusion	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pluck	present · passive		the blossoms	often property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Anthony			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	steal	present · passive		the fruit		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary branch=Theme
4	break	participle		the branches not said here	without a thankful thought of branches's profusion and beauty	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	think			branches's profusion and beauty		nom thought «cognition 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: «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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