The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 1

By the next year it had grown a whole ring taller, and the year after that another ring more, for you can always tell a fir-tree’s age from its rings.

Who acts: it, year, you · What happens: grow, ring, tell · To what, where: age, rings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, year, you), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grown	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grown	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grown	aux
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ring	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ring	amod
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taller	nsubj
11	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 grown	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ring	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ring	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ring	nsubj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 year	nmod
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grown	obl
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grown	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grown	conj
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	32 age	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 tree	case
32	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 rings	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 rings	nmod:poss
35	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	it			year	tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ring		the year after that					tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	can	you	a fir tree's age	ring's rings		always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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