More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 25

Ay, Sir; they died of over-work.

Who acts: horses · What happens: die · To what, where: Sir

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 (horses), 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	3 Sir	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl:unmarked
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 over-work	case
8	over-work	over-work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	horses = horse	Sir				of over-work	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of over-work=Causer

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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