Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 8

As years went on, Anne Lisbeth's child grew apace like weeds, although they said his growth had been stunted.

Who acts: years, child, weeds · What happens: go on, grow, say, stunt · To what, where: growth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, child, weeds), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	advcl
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
6	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 child	nmod:poss
7	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Anne	flat
8	's	's	PART	_	6 Anne	case
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	apace	apace	ADV	_	10 grew	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 weeds	case
13	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	although	although	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 growth	nmod:poss
19	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stunted	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stunted	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 stunted	aux:pass
22	stunted	stunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	years			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	Anne's child		like weeds; apace property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	weeds = weed			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stunt	past · perfect · passive		child's growth		tree rules
5	grow		child			nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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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