--- title: After three weeks, he had quite a respectable shadow, which, during… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: After three weeks, he had quite a respectable shadow, which, during his return journey to northern lands, continued to grow, and became at last so large that he might very well have spared half of it. Who acts: music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shad --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/) / 50 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 50 After three weeks, he had quite a respectable shadow, which, during his return journey to northern lands, continued to grow, and became at last so large that he might very well have spared half of it. **Who acts:** music · **What happens:** have, continue, grow, become, spare, journey · **To what, where:** respectable shadow, northern lands, half This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:165:50 # text = After three weeks, he had quite a respectable shadow, which, during his return journey to northern lands, continued to grow, and became at last so large that he might very well have spared half of it. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 10 det:predet _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 respectable respectable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 during during ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 34 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 35 very very ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 spared spare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 39 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 38 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | music | quite respectable shadow and music's return journey to northern lands | | | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient | | 2 | **continue** | participle | | northern lands *not said here* | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | music *not said here* | | | | | large, last *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **spare** | might · perfect | music | half of shadow | | | | well *property* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent half=Asset | | 6 | **journey** | | music | | | | | to northern lands | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/51/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/)