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title: The apple-tree was not broken down; for Anthony himself was struck w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The apple-tree was not broken down; for Anthony himself was struck with a fever, which caused him to break down, and confined him to his bed. Who acts: fever, tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 132

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The apple-tree was not broken down; for Anthony himself was struck with a fever, which caused him to break down, and confined him to his bed.

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**Who acts:** fever, tree · **What happens:** not break down, strike, cause, break down, confine · **To what, where:** apple tree, tree, bed

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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 (fever, tree), 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:pg27200:128:132
# text = The apple-tree was not broken down; for Anthony himself was struck with a fever, which caused him to break down, and confined him to his bed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	confined	confine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **break down** | past · passive |  | the apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | past · passive |  | tree |  |  |  | for Anthony; with a fever | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fever=Instrument |
| 3 | **cause** | past | a fever | tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break down** | to-infinitive | tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **confine** | past |  | tree |  | tree's bed |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bed=Destination |

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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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