Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 8

At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and after another year he was another long bit taller; for with fir trees one can always tell by the shoots how many years old they are.

Who acts: Tree, one, shoots · What happens: shoot up, be, tell · To what, where: Tree, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, one, shoots), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shot	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shot	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shot	aux
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 shot	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deal	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deal	amod
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shot	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taller	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 taller	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 year	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taller	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taller	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taller	cop
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 bit	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taller	obl:unmarked
24	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 shot	parataxis
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 trees	case
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 trees	case
28	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trees	compound
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tell	obl
30	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 tell	advmod
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shot	parataxis
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 shoots	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shoots	det
36	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tell	obl
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 many	advmod
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 years	amod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 old	obl:unmarked
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tell	ccomp
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 old	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 old	cop
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shoot up	past · perfect · passive		Tree	at the end of a year		tree rules
2	is	past	Tree		year	another long bit obl:unmarked; tall property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	can	one			for fir trees; by the shoots; always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	shoots = shoot		year	old 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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