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title: And what joy and blessing it would spread around if he could by any… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And what joy and blessing it would spread around if he could by any means be cured! Who acts: joy, any. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 96

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And what joy and blessing it would spread around if he could by any means be cured!

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**Who acts:** joy, any · **What happens:** bless, spread, mean, cure · **To what, where:** joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (joy, any), 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:pg27200:84:96
# text = And what joy and blessing it would spread around if he could by any means be cured!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	blessing	bless	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | gerund | joy *not said here* | joy |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** | would | joy |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **cure** *not said to happen* | infinitive · passive | any *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.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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