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title: If he succeeded, he would have to come a second time; but if not, he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: If he succeeded, he would have to come a second time; but if not, he would lose his life,--and no one had ever been able to guess even one. Who acts: John, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 72

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If he succeeded, he would have to come a second time; but if not, he would lose his life,--and no one had ever been able to guess even one.

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**Who acts:** John, one · **What happens:** succeed, have, come, lose, be, guess · **To what, where:** life, one

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, one), 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:pg27200:197:72
# text = If he succeeded, he would have to come a second time; but if not, he would lose his life,--and no one had ever been able to guess even one.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | would | John |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | would | John | John's life |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | no one |  |  |  | ever | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **guess** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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