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title: You would never have found out how extraordinary it was if it hadn’t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You would never have found out how extraordinary it was if it hadn’t hindered you from doing what you wanted to. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 106

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You would never have found out how extraordinary it was if it hadn’t hindered you from doing what you wanted to.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not find out, not be, do, want · **To what, where:** prison

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg503:3:106
# text = You would never have found out how extraordinary it was if it hadn’t hindered you from doing what you wanted to.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find out** | would · perfect | You |  |  |  |  | extraordinary *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | prison |  |  |  | hinder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **want** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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