Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 18

You see, such a thing may be said when it is quite out of the question--and, indeed, Pulcinella burst out laughing, and gave a leap into the air, and his melancholy was forgotten.

Who acts: You, thing, Pulcinella · What happens: see, say, be, burst out, laugh, give · To what, where: thing, question, leap, air, melancholy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, thing, Pulcinella), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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