Complex sentence: "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 about a man in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep on one of the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later, having missed the American Revolution.
Split into simpler sentences: Rip Van Winkle is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819. It follows a man in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later, having missed the American Revolution.