More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 19

Horseflesh; he died of eating horseflesh.

Who acts: G. · What happens: die, eat · To what, where: Horseflesh

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (G.), 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	Horseflesh	horseflesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Horseflesh	acl:relcl
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 died	advcl
7	horseflesh	horseflesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Horseflesh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	G.	Horseflesh not said here					tree rules
2	eat	gerund	G. not said here	horseflesh					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseflesh=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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