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title: If so much as a single maggot were to escape, then there'd be no hel… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 26

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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!"

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:54:26
# text = 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!"
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maggot	maggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	maggot	maggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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