Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 32

If the people could have seen their favourite, they would have cried as usual, 'Bravo, Pulcinella; bravo, bravissimo!'"

Who acts: people · What happens: see, cry · To what, where: favourite, people

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 (people), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 seen	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seen	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cried	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 favourite	nmod:poss
8	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	aux
13	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 usual	case
15	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 '	punct
17	'	's	PART	_	18 Bravo	punct
18	Bravo	Bravo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Pulcinella	punct
20	Pulcinella	Pulcinella	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Bravo	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bravo	punct
22	bravo	bravo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bravissimo	punct
24	bravissimo	bravissimo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bravo	appos
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 bravissimo	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 bravissimo	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 bravissimo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect	the people	people's favourite					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer favourite=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	would · perfect · passive		people				as usual; Bravo and Pulcinella obl; bravo obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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