Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

Then this boy fell into such a fearful illness—so terrible that there was nobody who could cure it—and it was beyond the skill of the physicians; there was no understanding of it.

Who acts: boy, nobody, illness, understanding · What happens: fall, be, cure, understand · To what, where: fearful illness, illness

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, nobody, illness, understanding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fell	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 illness	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 illness	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 illness	det
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 illness	amod
9	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 terrible	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 terrible	advmod
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 was	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 terrible	advcl
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 was	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 cure	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cure	aux
19	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nobody	acl:relcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cure	obj
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 skill	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 skill	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 skill	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 skill	cop
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	27 skill	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 skill	det
27	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 physicians	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 physicians	det
30	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 skill	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 understanding	det
35	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 understanding	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	this boy			then	into such fearful illness result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into illness=Result
2	be	past	nobody		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cure	could		illness			who nsubj	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source
4	is	past	illness				beyond the skill; of the physicians	tree rules
5	be	past	no understanding of illness		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	understand			illness				nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 43