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title: It would have been too ridiculous if beauty and ugliness had in real… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have been too ridiculous if beauty and ugliness had in reality paired together. Who acts: Columbine, beauty. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 11

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It would have been too ridiculous if beauty and ugliness had in reality paired together.

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**Who acts:** Columbine, beauty · **What happens:** be, have, pair · **To what, where:** reality

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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 (Columbine, beauty), 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:pg27200:106:11
# text = It would have been too ridiculous if beauty and ugliness had in reality paired together.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	paired	pair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | Columbine |  |  |  |  | ridiculous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | beauty and ugliness |  |  | reality |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pair** | participle | beauty and ugliness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «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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