Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 67

Last year the old apple-tree by the grass-plot only bore one apple, and we kept it in the cupboard till it was quite withered and rotten.

Who acts: old apple tree, we, tree · What happens: bear, keep, be · To what, where: one apple, tree, cupboard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old apple tree, we, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8276): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 year	amod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bore	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 apple	punct
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bore	nsubj
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 plot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plot	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plot	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grass	punct
12	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	nmod
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 bore	advmod
14	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 apple	nummod
16	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bore	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bore	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cupboard	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cupboard	det
24	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 withered	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 withered	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 withered	cop
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 withered	advmod
29	withered	withered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rotten	cc
31	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 withered	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the old apple tree by the grass plot	one apple		year		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
2	keep	past	we	tree	the cupboard			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cupboard=Location
3	is	past	tree				withered property	tree rules
4	be		tree not said here					tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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