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title: As years went on, Anne Lisbeth's child grew apace like weeds, althou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 8

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

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:5:8
# text = As years went on, Anne Lisbeth's child grew apace like weeds, although they said his growth had been stunted.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	apace	apace	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	stunted	stunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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