Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 24
If it hadn't been for it, however could the girl have got through all her work?
Who acts: life, girl · What happens: have, not be, get, work · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, girl), 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 | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | advcl |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 it | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 it | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 work | det:predet |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | for doll | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | could · perfect | the girl | girl's work | however property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through work=Destination | |||
| 4 | work | girl | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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