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title: ‘If thou hadst remembered how I got the magpie’s nest, thou wouldst… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If thou hadst remembered how I got the magpie’s nest, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon. Who acts: thou, I, golden pigeon, my. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 110

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‘If thou hadst remembered how I got the magpie’s nest, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon.

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**Who acts:** thou, I, golden pigeon, my · **What happens:** remember, get, give, coo, share · **To what, where:** nest, share, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I, golden pigeon, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:2675`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:29:110
# text = ‘If thou hadst remembered how I got the magpie’s nest, thou wouldst have given me my share,’ cooed the golden pigeon.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	hadst	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	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	got	get	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	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	wouldst	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
23	cooed	coo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | I | the magpie's nest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | future · perfect | thou | my share | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient share=Theme |
| 4 | **coo** | past | the golden pigeon |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **share** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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