The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 77

If you had done so, I certainly would not have listened to you; in fact, I should have said ‘Pooh,’ like the critic.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, not listen, say · To what, where: you, fact · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. 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 done	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 listened	nsubj
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	12 listened	advmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 listened	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 listened	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 listened	aux
12	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 done	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 listened	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 fact	case
17	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fact	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 said	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	aux
22	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 done	conj
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Pooh	punct
24	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 critic	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 critic	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 critic	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 critic	det
29	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Pooh	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not listen	would · perfect	I	you		certainly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	should · perfect	I		fact		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in fact=Manner

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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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