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title: Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree; and yet it was not happy, it wished so much to be tall like its companions--the pines and firs which grew around it. Who acts: warm sun, tree, companions. A sentence of «Fairy Tale
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 1

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Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree; and yet it was not happy, it wished so much to be tall like its companions--the pines and firs which grew around it.

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**Who acts:** warm sun, tree, companions · **What happens:** make, grow, not be, wish, be · **To what, where:** sweet resting place, forest, pretty little fir tree, much, tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (warm sun, tree, companions), 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:pg27200:33:1
# text = Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting-place, grew a pretty little fir-tree; and yet it was not happy, it wished so much to be tall like its companions--the pines and firs which grew around it.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advcl	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
54	around	around	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the warm sun and the fresh air | a sweet resting place |  | the forest |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the warm sun and the fresh air *not said here* | a pretty little fir tree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | tree |  |  |  | yet | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | past | tree | much |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like tree's companions and the pines and firs; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | past | tree's companions and the pines and firs |  |  | tree |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Location |

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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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