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title: I should have gone yesterday, if you had not been here and taken up… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should have gone yesterday, if you had not been here and taken up all my time." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 12

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I should have gone yesterday, if you had not been here and taken up all my time."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** go, not be, take up

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg7128:28:12
# text = I should have gone yesterday, if you had not been here and taken up all my time."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | should · perfect | I |  |  |  | yesterday |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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