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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 weeks	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	10 shadow	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
9	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shadow	amod
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 journey	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 journey	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 which	punct
14	during	during	ADP	_	17 journey	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 journey	nmod:poss
16	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 journey	compound
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shadow	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 lands	case
19	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lands	amod
20	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 journey	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 continued	punct
22	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 lands	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 grow	mark
24	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 continued	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 large	advmod
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 spared	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 spared	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 spared	aux
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 well	advmod
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 spared	advmod
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 spared	aux
38	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 large	advcl
39	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 spared	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 half	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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.

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