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title: I will break down the apple-tree, and tear it up by the roots; never… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will break down the apple-tree, and tear it up by the roots; never more shall it blossom or bear fruit." Who acts: I, more. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 131

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I will break down the apple-tree, and tear it up by the roots; never more shall it blossom or bear fruit."

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**Who acts:** I, more · **What happens:** break down, tear up, blossom, bear · **To what, where:** apple tree, sensation, fruit

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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 (I, more), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:128:131
# text = I will break down the apple-tree, and tear it up by the roots; never more shall it blossom or bear fruit."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	blossom	blossom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | future | I | the apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **tear up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | sensation |  |  |  | by the roots | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **blossom** | shall | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | infinitive | more *not said here* | fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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.

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**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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