The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 60

And from that time the people of the country began to die like ordinary mortals all the world over.

Who acts: people · What happens: begin, die over · To what, where: world

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 began	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 die	mark
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 mortals	case
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mortals	amod
15	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 die	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 world	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	obl:unmarked
19	over	over	ADP	_	12 die	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the people of the country				time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	die over	to-infinitive	the people of the country not said here	all world				like ordinary mortals	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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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