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title: If he had called out, "Here I am," it would have been all right, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If he had called out, "Here I am," it would have been all right, but he was too proud to cry out for help while he wore a uniform. Who acts: goblin, head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 32

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If he had called out, "Here I am," it would have been all right, but he was too proud to cry out for help while he wore a uniform.

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**Who acts:** goblin, head · **What happens:** call out, be, cry out, wear · **To what, where:** uniform · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin, head), 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:pg27200:192:32
# text = If he had called out, "Here I am," it would have been all right, but he was too proud to cry out for help while he wore a uniform.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | goblin |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | goblin |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | would · perfect | head |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | goblin |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 6 | **wear** | past | goblin | a uniform |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme |

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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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