The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 20

‘I carried out my intention, and had all the fruit picked off the tree, but when I tasted one of the apples it was bitter and unpleasant, and the next morning the rest of the fruit had all rotted away.

Who acts: I, fruit, my · What happens: carry out, have, pick off, taste, be, rot away · To what, where: intention, fruit, tree, one, apples, next morning

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fruit, my), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 intention	nmod:poss
6	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 fruit	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fruit	det
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fruit	acl
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 picked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tasted	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 tasted	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 tasted	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tasted	nsubj
21	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 tasted	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 apples	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 apples	det
25	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bitter	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bitter	cop
28	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 apples	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 unpleasant	cc
30	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bitter	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rotted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 rotted	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 morning	det
34	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morning	amod
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rotted	nsubj:pass
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rest	det
37	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rotted	nsubj:pass
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 fruit	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fruit	det
40	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rest	nmod
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 rotted	aux
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 rotted	advmod
43	rotted	rot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 carried	conj
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 rotted	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry out	past	I	my intention		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Eventuality
2	have	past	I not said here	all fruit		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	pick off	participle	all fruit not said here	the tree		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
4	taste	past	I	one of the apples		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
5	is	past	fruit	the apples not said here	bitter property	tree rules
6	be		fruit not said here			tree rules
7	rot away	past · perfect · passive		the next morning	all, away property	tree rules
8	intend		my			nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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