Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 26

If so much as a single maggot were to escape, then there'd be no help for it; in that maggot I should slip away!"

Who acts: help, I · What happens: escape, be, slip away · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, I), 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 much	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 escape	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 maggot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maggot	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maggot	amod
7	maggot	maggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 much	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 escape	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 escape	mark
10	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 be	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 be	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 be	expl
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 escape	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 help	det
17	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 be	nsubj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 help	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 slip	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 maggot	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 maggot	det
23	maggot	maggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slip	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 slip	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 slip	aux
26	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 escape	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 slip	advmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 escape	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past		much			as a single maggot	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Initial_Location
2	be	would	no help for maggot		there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slip away	should	I				in that maggot; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in maggot=Attribute

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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