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title: This tree required much sunshine, for in continual shade it would be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This tree required much sunshine, for in continual shade it would become bright green like the other trees, and thus lose its distinctive character. Who acts: tree, sunshine. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 32

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This tree required much sunshine, for in continual shade it would become bright green like the other trees, and thus lose its distinctive character.

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**Who acts:** tree, sunshine · **What happens:** require, become, lose · **To what, where:** much sunshine, continual shade, distinctive character

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, sunshine), 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:pg27200:149:32
# text = This tree required much sunshine, for in continual shade it would become bright green like the other trees, and thus lose its distinctive character.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | past | this tree | much sunshine |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunshine=Precondition |
| 2 | **become** | would | sunshine |  |  |  |  | in continual shade *result*; green *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in shade=Result |
| 3 | **lose** | present |  | sunshine's distinctive character |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Eventuality |

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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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