Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 2

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 place	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 sun	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	conj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sun	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shone	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 enough	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 air	amod
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 air	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 enough	cop
24	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 enough	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 grew	cc
29	round	round	ADP	_	31 grew	mark
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 enough	conj
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 comrades	amod
33	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sized	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 large	punct
35	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 comrades	amod
36	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grew	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pines	punct
38	pines	pine	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 comrades	appos
39	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	42 firs	cc
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 as	fixed
41	as	as	ADP	_	39 as	fixed
42	firs	fir	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pines	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

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: «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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