Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 58

In the course of three weeks he had a very fair shadow, which, when he set out for his home in the northern lands, grew more and more in the journey, so that at last it was so long and so large, that it was more than sufficient.

Who acts: man, fair shadow, shadow · What happens: have, set out, grow, be · To what, where: fair shadow, course, northern lands, journey

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» 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 (man, fair shadow, shadow), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 course	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 weeks	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weeks	nummod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shadow	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 fair	advmod
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shadow	amod
12	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 set	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 set	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj
18	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shadow	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 home	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 home	nmod:poss
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 lands	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lands	det
25	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lands	amod
26	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 set	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 grew	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 more	cc
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 more	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 journey	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 journey	det
34	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 last	punct
36	so	so	SCONJ	_	39 last	case
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 so	fixed
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 last	case
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grew	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 long	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 long	cop
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 long	advmod
43	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 last	ccomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 large	cc
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 large	advmod
46	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 long	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 more	punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 more	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 more	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 more	cop
51	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 grew	conj
52	than	than	ADP	_	53 sufficient	case
53	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 more	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a fair shadow	the course	week		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient
2	set out	past	a fair shadow		the northern lands		for man's home	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	man not said here		the journey			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in journey=Location
4	is	past	shadow				long property	tree rules
5	be		shadow not said here					tree rules
6	is	past	shadow				than sufficient; more property	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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