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title: If you had done so, I certainly would not have listened to you; in f… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If you had done so, I certainly would not have listened to you; in fact, I should have said ‘Pooh,’ like the critic. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 77

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If you had done so, I certainly would not have listened to you; in fact, I should have said ‘Pooh,’ like the critic.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** do, not listen, say · **To what, where:** you, fact · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg902:5:77
# text = If you had done so, I certainly would not have listened to you; in fact, I should have said ‘Pooh,’ like the critic.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	critic	critic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **listen** | would · perfect | I |  | you |  |  | certainly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | should · perfect | I |  |  | fact |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in fact=Manner |

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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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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