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title: "'Yes, if we had chosen,' they each thought, 'we might have spent a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'Yes, if we had chosen,' they each thought, 'we might have spent a very pleasant evening.' Who acts: we, things. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 82

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"'Yes, if we had chosen,' they each thought, 'we might have spent a very pleasant evening.'

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**Who acts:** we, things · **What happens:** choose, thought, spend · **To what, where:** thought

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, things), 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:pg27200:35:82
# text = "'Yes, if we had chosen,' they each thought, 'we might have spent a very pleasant evening.'
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** *in a quote* | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thought** *in a quote* |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spend** *in a quote* | might · perfect | we | each thought *not said here* |  |  | evening |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Asset |

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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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