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title: If the people could have seen their favourite, they would have cried… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If the people could have seen their favourite, they would have cried as usual, 'Bravo, Pulcinella; bravo, bravissimo!'" Who acts: people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 32

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If the people could have seen their favourite, they would have cried as usual, 'Bravo, Pulcinella; bravo, bravissimo!'"

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** see, cry · **To what, where:** favourite, people

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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 (people), 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:pg27200:106:32
# text = If the people could have seen their favourite, they would have cried as usual, 'Bravo, Pulcinella; bravo, bravissimo!'"
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bravo	Bravo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bravo	bravo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	bravissimo	bravissimo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · perfect | the people | people's favourite |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer favourite=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | would · perfect · passive |  | people |  |  |  | as usual; Bravo and Pulcinella *obl*; bravo *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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