Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 141
About a year after this one of the young men fell ill and died.
Who acts: year · What happens: fall, die
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (year), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 died | cc |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fell | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a year after this one of the young men | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | a year after this one of the young men not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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