The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 4

One day, when he was away hunting, the woman fell ill, and in a few days she died.

Who acts: he, woman · What happens: hunt, fall, die

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, woman), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hunting	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hunting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hunting	aux
7	away	away	ADV	_	8 hunting	advmod
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fell	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 died	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 days	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 died	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fell	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	he		away property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the woman	day	ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	woman	day		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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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