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title: Had not the creatures been venomous or been kissed by the witch, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Had not the creatures been venomous or been kissed by the witch, they would have been changed into red roses. Who acts: creatures, witch. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 30

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Had not the creatures been venomous or been kissed by the witch, they would have been changed into red roses.

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**Who acts:** creatures, witch · **What happens:** have, not be, kiss, change · **To what, where:** creatures, red roses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, witch), 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:pg27200:208:30
# text = Had not the creatures been venomous or been kissed by the witch, they would have been changed into red roses.
1	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle | the creatures |  |  |  |  | venomous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kiss** | participle · passive | the witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **change** | would · perfect · passive |  | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  | into red roses *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into rose=Result |

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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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