Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 4
And yet all this while the tree grew a notch or joint taller every year; for by the number of joints in the stem of a fir-tree we can discover its age.
Who acts: tree, we · What happens: grow, discover, stem · To what, where: age, fir tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, we), 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 | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 grew | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 this | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 yet | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 notch | det |
| 10 | notch | notch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taller | nsubj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 joint | cc |
| 12 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 notch | conj |
| 13 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grew | parataxis |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 number | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 number | case |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 number | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 number | det |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 joints | case |
| 22 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 number | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 stem | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stem | det |
| 25 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 joints | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 28 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 fir | punct |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stem | nmod |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 discover | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 discover | aux |
| 33 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 tree | acl:relcl |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 age | nmod:poss |
| 35 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 discover | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the tree | yet; year | for the number of joints in the stem of a fir tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | discover | can | we | tree's age | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stem | a fir tree | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: «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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