The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 10

Twelve of our crew died from hard labor and bad food, and the rest were in a very weak condition.

Who acts: Twelve, rest · What happens: die, be · To what, where: hard labor, weak condition

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twelve, rest), 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	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 died	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 crew	case
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 crew	nmod:poss
4	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 labor	case
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 labor	amod
8	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 food	cc
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 labor	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 condition	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 condition	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 condition	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 condition	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 condition	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 condition	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 weak	advmod
20	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 condition	amod
21	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Twelve			hard labor and bad food			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from labor=Causer
2	is	past	the rest			a weak condition			tree rules

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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