The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 11
If you had refused to help me I should have been certain that you were wicked.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: refuse, not help, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 refused | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | aux |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 certain | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 certain | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 certain | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 certain | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 certain | cop |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wicked | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wicked | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wicked | cop |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 certain | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not help | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | should · perfect | I | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | you | wicked 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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