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title: Therefore Pulcinella had to be more boisterous and extravagant than… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore Pulcinella had to be more boisterous and extravagant than ever; and he danced and capered, with despair in his heart; and the audience yelled, and shouted 'bravo, bravissimo!' Who acts: Pulcinella, director, audience. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 25

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Therefore Pulcinella had to be more boisterous and extravagant than ever; and he danced and capered, with despair in his heart; and the audience yelled, and shouted 'bravo, bravissimo!'

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**Who acts:** Pulcinella, director, audience · **What happens:** have, be, dance, caper, yell, shout · **To what, where:** despair, heart, bravo

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pulcinella, director, audience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:106:25
# text = Therefore Pulcinella had to be more boisterous and extravagant than ever; and he danced and capered, with despair in his heart; and the audience yelled, and shouted 'bravo, bravissimo!'
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	extravagant	extravagant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	capered	caper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	bravo	bravo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	bravissimo	bravissimo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Pulcinella |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Pulcinella *not said here* |  |  |  |  | boisterous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Pulcinella *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | past | director |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **caper** | past | director *not said here* | despair |  | director's heart |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location despair=Theme |
| 6 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | the audience |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Pulcinella *not said here* | bravo and bravissimo |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bravo=Topic |

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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.

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**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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