The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 1

'If you had only listened to us,' they cried, 'he would be alive now.

Who acts: you, they, he · What happens: listen, cry, be · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, they, he), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 listened	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 listened	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listened	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 listened	advmod
6	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 listened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 listened	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 alive	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 alive	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 alive	cop
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	parataxis
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 alive	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	us			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to we=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	they				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	he		now	alive property	tree rules

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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