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title: ‘After this I had the beautiful fruit of these trees carefully guard… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Yel
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 21

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‘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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:30:21
# text = ‘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.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
47	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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:** «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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