Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 30
Had not the creatures been venomous or been kissed by the witch, they would have been changed into red roses.
Who acts: creatures, witch · What happens: have, not be, kiss, change · To what, where: creatures, red roses
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.
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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 venomous | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creatures | det |
| 4 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 venomous | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 venomous | cop |
| 6 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Had | advcl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | cc |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 kissed | aux:pass |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 venomous | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 witch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kissed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 changed | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 changed | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 changed | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 changed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 changed | aux:pass |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Had | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 roses | case |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roses | amod |
| 21 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 changed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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