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title: At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and after another y… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its depe
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 8

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:10:8
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
30	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	advmod	_	_
33	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
38	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
42	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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.

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**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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