--- title: ‘If it had not been for you, you miserable dwarf!’ she would say bet… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If it had not been for you, you miserable dwarf!’ she would say between her teeth, ‘if it had not been for you I should never have married that man, and I should still have been going to dances, where the young men would have brought me present of nuts and cherries, and told me that I was the prett --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/80/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/) / 80 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 80 ‘If it had not been for you, you miserable dwarf!’ she would say between her teeth, ‘if it had not been for you I should never have married that man, and I should still have been going to dances, where the young men would have brought me present of nuts and cherries, and told me that I was the prettiest girl in the parish. **Who acts:** anger, you, Barbaik, I · **What happens:** have, not be, dwarf, say, not marry, go · **To what, where:** anger, dances, young men, me, prettiest girl, parish · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, you, Barbaik, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:37:80 # text = ‘If it had not been for you, you miserable dwarf!’ she would say between her teeth, ‘if it had not been for you I should never have married that man, and I should still have been going to dances, where the young men would have brought me present of nuts and cherries, and told me that I was the prettiest girl in the parish. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 18 between between ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 41 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 aux _ _ 44 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 dances dance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 48 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 54 advmod _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 aux _ _ 54 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 acl:relcl _ _ 55 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 cherries cherry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 64 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 63 iobj _ _ 65 that that SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 66 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 70 nsubj _ _ 67 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 70 cop _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 69 prettiest pretty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 70 amod _ _ 70 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 ccomp _ _ 71 in in ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 parish parish NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anger | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | | | for you | tree rules | | 3 | **dwarf** | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Barbaik | | | | | between Barbaik's teeth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | | | for you | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | should · past · perfect · passive | | anger | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | should · perfect · progressive | I | | | dances | still | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **bring** | would · perfect · passive | | the young men | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 10 | **is a** | past | I | the prettiest girl | | the parish | | | 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 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/81/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/)