Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 5

If it had not been for that, I should have been starved to death long ago!"

Who acts: game · What happens: have, not be, starve · To what, where: I

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game), 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	13 starved	advcl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 that	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 that	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 starved	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 starved	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 starved	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 starved	aux:pass
13	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 death	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 starved	obl
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 ago	advmod
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 starved	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 starved	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 starved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	game			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			for that	tree rules
3	starve	should · perfect · passive		I	to death; ago property	tree rules

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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