--- title: ‘If thou hadst remembered how I cleaned the byre, thou wouldst have… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If thou hadst remembered how I cleaned the byre, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon, and as he spoke three more grains fell, and the silver pigeon ate them as before. Who acts: I, flame, three more grains, silver pigeon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, flame, three more grains, silver pigeon), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:29:108 # text = ‘If thou hadst remembered how I cleaned the byre, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon, and as he spoke three more grains fell, and the silver pigeon ate them as before. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 4 hadst have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 remembered remember VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cleaned clean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 byre byre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 wouldst would AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 share share NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 21 cooed coo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 pigeon pigeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 as as ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 before before ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | thou | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **clean** | past | I | the byre | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent byre=Patient | | 3 | **give** | would · perfect · passive | | thou | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **coo** | past | | the golden pigeon | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | flame | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** | past | three more grains | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **eat** | past | the silver pigeon | grains *= grain* | | | | before *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 8 | **share** | | my | | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/109/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/)