Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 12

I should have gone yesterday, if you had not been here and taken up all my time."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, not be, take up

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, 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 (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taken	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 taken	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 taken	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 here	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 here	cop
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 taken	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taken	cc
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 taken	compound:prt
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 time	det:predet
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 time	nmod:poss
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	should · perfect	I	yesterday		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	participle			here property	tree rules
3	take up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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