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title: The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fr… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs. Who acts: he, place, him. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and t
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 2

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The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs.

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**Who acts:** he, place, him · **What happens:** have, be, shine, grow, size · **To what, where:** place, good one, sun, many sized comrades

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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 (he, place, him), 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:pg1597:10:2
# text = The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	round	round	ADP	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	42	cc	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
42	firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	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 | **have** | past | he | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the place | a good one and the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  | on him *= he* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of that; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | past | him *= he* | many sized comrades |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location comrade=Theme |
| 6 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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