The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 21

‘After this I had the beautiful fruit of these trees carefully guarded by my most faithful servants; but every year, on this very night, the fruit was plucked and stolen by an invisible hand, and next morning not a single apple remained on the trees.

Who acts: I, next morning · What happens: have, guard, pluck, steal, not apple, remain · To what, where: beautiful fruit, trees, fruit, single apple

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, next morning), 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	_	5 had	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 had	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fruit	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fruit	amod
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fruit	nmod
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	13 guarded	advmod
13	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 trees	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 servants	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 servants	nmod:poss
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 faithful	advmod
17	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 servants	amod
18	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 guarded	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 plucked	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 plucked	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 year	det
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plucked	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 night	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 night	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 night	advmod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 year	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 year	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fruit	det
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plucked	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 plucked	aux:pass
32	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stolen	cc
34	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 plucked	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 hand	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hand	det
37	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hand	amod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stolen	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 apple	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 apple	cc
41	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 morning	amod
42	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 apple	nsubj
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 apple	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 apple	det
45	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 apple	amod
46	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plucked	obl
47	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 apple	acl
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 trees	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 trees	det
50	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 remained	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	the beautiful fruit of this trees		after this		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	guard	participle		this trees not said here			by my faithful servants; carefully property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	pluck	past · passive		the fruit		year		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	steal	participle					by a invisible hand	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location
5	not apple		next morning					tree rules
6	remain	participle		a single apple not said here	the trees			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

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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