--- title: Christmas-time drew near, and many young trees were cut down, some e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Christmas-time drew near, and many young trees were cut down, some even smaller and younger than the fir-tree who enjoyed neither rest nor peace with longing to leave its forest home. Who acts: Christmas time, fir tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/27/) [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 Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/) / 27 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 27 Christmas-time drew near, and many young trees were cut down, some even smaller and younger than the fir-tree who enjoyed neither rest nor peace with longing to leave its forest home. **Who acts:** Christmas time, fir tree · **What happens:** draw, cut down, enjoy, rest, long, leave · **To what, where:** many young trees, forest 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 (Christmas time, fir tree), 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:pg27200:33:27 # text = Christmas-time drew near, and many young trees were cut down, some even smaller and younger than the fir-tree who enjoyed neither rest nor peace with longing to leave its forest home. 1 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 near near ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc:preconj _ _ 28 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 30 cc _ _ 30 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 with with SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 longing long VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 home home ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | Christmas time | | | | | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cut down** | past · passive | | many young trees | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | the fir tree | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **rest** | infinitive | the fir tree *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **long** | gerund | the fir tree *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the fir tree *not said here* | peace's forest | | | | home *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/28/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)