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title: In autumn it produced two apples, one for Molly and one for Anthony;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In autumn it produced two apples, one for Molly and one for Anthony; it could not well do less. Who acts: sun. 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 95

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In autumn it produced two apples, one for Molly and one for Anthony; it could not well do less.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** produce, not do · **To what, where:** two apples

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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 (sun), 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:pg27200:128:95
# text = In autumn it produced two apples, one for Molly and one for Anthony; it could not well do less.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **produce** | past | sun | two apples |  |  | autumn |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Result |
| 2 | **not** **do** | could | sun |  |  |  |  | less, well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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