Text Formatting ⇒ Fitting the length of each branch for this tree

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I found this tree example from the LaTeX Cookbook in

http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/tree/

Which i've used to build my own tree, but i have some problems with the length of the branch being the samme for all of them, thereby making some of the leaves overlap..

as seen here:

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% A simple Tree
% Author: Stefan Kottwitz
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} 
%%%<
\usepackage{verbatim}
%%%>
\begin{comment}
:Title: A simple Tree
:Tags: Trees;Cookbook
:Author: Stefan Kottwitz
:Slug: tree

A simple tree with a style for all nodes.
\end{comment}

\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[sibling distance=15em,
  every node/.style = {shape=rectangle, rounded corners,
    draw, align=center,
    top color=white, bottom color=blue!20}]]
  \node {Sentence}
    child { node {W1} 
        child { node {M1} 
            child { node {P1}}
            child { node {P2}}}
        child { node {M2} 
            child { node {P1}}
            child { node {P2}}}}
    child { node {W2} 
        child { node {M1}
            child { node {P1} }}}
    child { node {W3} 
        child { node {M1} }
        child { node {M2} }};
    
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Creating this image.

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How do fix the overlapping leaves, or how do set the length for the branches individually...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

You can adjust the sibling distance for each level individually, such as:

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\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} 
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[%sibling distance=15em,
    level 1/.style={sibling distance=8em},
    level 2/.style={sibling distance=6em},
    level 3/.style={sibling distance=3em},
  every node/.style = {shape=rectangle, rounded corners,
    draw, align=center,
    top color=white, bottom color=blue!20}]]
  \node {Sentence}
    child { node {W1} 
        child { node {M1} 
            child { node {P1}}
            child { node {P2}}}
        child { node {M2} 
            child { node {P1}}
            child { node {P2}}}}
    child { node {W2} 
        child { node {M1}
            child { node {P1} }}}
    child { node {W3} 
        child { node {M1} }
        child { node {M2} }};
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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