Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 44

He brought me back into the white world; if it hadn't been for him I should have remained down there for ever!"

Who acts: man · What happens: bring back, not remain down · To what, where: me, white world, world

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 brought	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 remained	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 remained	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remained	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 remained	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 remained	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 remained	aux:pass
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 been	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 remained	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 remained	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 remained	aux
20	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 brought	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 remained	compound:prt
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 remained	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 ever	case
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 remained	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 remained	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	man	me		the white world			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into world=Destination
2	not remain down a condition, not said to happen	should · past · perfect · passive		world		there			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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