Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 123

If I hadn't been able to do it, I wouldn't have invited people to try."

Who acts: I, invited people · What happens: not be, do, not invite, try · To what, where: business, I

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, invited people), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 able	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 able	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 invited	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 invited	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 invited	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 invited	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 invited	aux
15	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 try	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 try	mark
18	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I		able property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	business		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	not invite	would · perfect · passive		I		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	try	to-infinitive	invited people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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