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title: And if you had not beaten me nothing would have happened that has ha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if you had not beaten me nothing would have happened that has happened, and I should not now be King of Hungary.” Who acts: you, nothing, that, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 27

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And if you had not beaten me nothing would have happened that has happened, and I should not now be King of Hungary.”

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**Who acts:** you, nothing, that, I · **What happens:** not beat, happen, not be · **To what, where:** me, King

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing, that, I), 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:pg2435:8:27
# text = And if you had not beaten me nothing would have happened that has happened, and I should not now be King of Hungary.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **beat** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | would · perfect | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | present · perfect | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | should | I | King |  |  | now | of Hungary | tree rules |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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