More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 105

And so much did he grow that when but ten years old he was already eight feet high, and his hand like a shoulder of mutton.

Who acts: fellow · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: hand

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 grow	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 old	mark
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 old	cc
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	advcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 high	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 high	cop
15	already	already	ADV	_	18 high	advmod
16	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 feet	nummod
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 high	obl:unmarked
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hand	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hand	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shoulder	det
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hand	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 mutton	case
27	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shoulder	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · do-support	fellow	fellow's hand like a shoulder of mutton					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	fellow					eight feet obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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