The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 57

He was no taller than he had been seven years ago, when he was not much more than twelve years old, but he made up in breadth, and his back and chest had grown into lumps like two great sacks.

Who acts: head · What happens: not be, be, make up, grow · To what, where: breadth, back, lumps

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taller	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 taller	advmod
4	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 ago	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ago	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ago	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 ago	cop
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ago	obl:unmarked
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 taller	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 more	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 more	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 more	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 more	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 taller	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 years	case
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 old	obl:unmarked
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 more	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taller	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 made	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 breadth	case
29	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grown	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grown	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grown	nsubj:pass
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 chest	cc
35	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 back	conj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 grown	aux
37	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 made	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	39 lumps	case
39	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grown	obl
40	like	like	ADP	_	43 sacks	case
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 sacks	nummod
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sacks	amod
43	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lumps	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taller	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	head				tall property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	head			year	ago property	tree rules
3	is	past	head				more property	tree rules
4	make up	past	head		breadth			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past · perfect · passive		head's back and chest	lumps like two great sacks			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into lump=Product

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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