Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 13

They went on and on till they came to another village, and at the very end of it was an empty hut--the people who had lived there had died of hunger.

Who acts: brothers, end, people · What happens: go, come, be, live, die · To what, where: village, end

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, end, people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 died	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 died	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 end	advmod
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 died	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	23 hut	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hut	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hut	cop
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hut	det
22	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hut	amod
23	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 end	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 died	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lived	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lived	aux
29	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 people	acl:relcl
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 lived	advmod
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 died	aux
32	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 hunger	case
34	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 died	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	brothers = brother				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	brothers = brother	another village			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
3	is	past	end			of a empty hut	tree rules
4	live	past · perfect	the people	there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	past · perfect	the people		at the end	of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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