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title: Had you been able to climb like me, you would not have lost your lif… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 21

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Had you been able to climb like me, you would not have lost your life.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, be, climb, not lose · **To what, where:** you, life

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg2591:42:21
# text = Had you been able to climb like me, you would not have lost your life.’
1	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like me | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **lose** | would · perfect | you | your life |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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