Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 144

To get down was utterly impossible, it seemed as if he must die of starvation.

Who acts: it, Katoma · What happens: get down, be, seem, die

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Katoma), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 impossible	advcl
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 get	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	cop
5	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	6 impossible	advmod
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impossible	acl:relcl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 die	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 die	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 starvation	case
16	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get down	to-infinitive		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	past		impossible, utterly property	tree rules
3	seem	past	it		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	die a condition, not said to happen	must	Katoma	of starvation	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=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: «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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