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title: “If I hadn’t been carried,” replied the cabbage, “you may be very su… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I hadn’t been carried,” replied the cabbage, “you may be very sure that I shouldn’t have thought of going there.” Who acts: cabbage, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 57

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“If I hadn’t been carried,” replied the cabbage, “you may be very sure that I shouldn’t have thought of going there.”

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**Who acts:** cabbage, you · **What happens:** not carry, reply, be, not think, go · **To what, where:** cabbage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cabbage, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:22:57
# text = “If I hadn’t been carried,” replied the cabbage, “you may be very sure that I shouldn’t have thought of going there.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **carry** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | the cabbage *= cabbage* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the cabbage |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | may | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | should · perfect | the cabbage *= cabbage* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | the cabbage *= cabbage* *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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