Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 25

Therefore Pulcinella had to be more boisterous and extravagant than ever; and he danced and capered, with despair in his heart; and the audience yelled, and shouted 'bravo, bravissimo!'

Who acts: Pulcinella, director, audience · What happens: have, be, dance, caper, yell, shout · To what, where: despair, heart, bravo

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 boisterous	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 boisterous	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 boisterous	advmod
7	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 extravagant	cc
9	extravagant	extravagant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boisterous	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 extravagant	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 danced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 danced	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 danced	nsubj
15	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 capered	cc
17	capered	caper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 danced	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 despair	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 despair	case
20	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 capered	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 heart	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despair	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 yelled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 yelled	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 audience	det
27	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 yelled	nsubj
28	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shouted	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shouted	cc
31	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 bravo	punct
33	bravo	bravo	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shouted	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bravissimo	punct
35	bravissimo	bravissimo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bravo	conj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 bravo	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 bravo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Pulcinella			therefore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	Pulcinella not said here			boisterous property	tree rules
3	be		Pulcinella not said here				tree rules
4	dance	past	director				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	caper	past	director not said here	despair	director's heart		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location despair=Theme
6	yell speech: express	past	the audience				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	shout speech: express	past	Pulcinella not said here	bravo and bravissimo			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bravo=Topic

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.

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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