Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 2
Just a little more, and it would be impossible for him to escape!
Who acts: him · What happens: be, escape
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (him), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 more | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 impossible | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 impossible | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impossible | expl |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 impossible | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 impossible | cop |
| 10 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 more | conj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 escape | mark |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 escape | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 escape | mark |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 impossible | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | him = he | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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