Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 18

It was no great terror to him to die for the faith, but what would become of his wife and children?

Who acts: close, great terror · What happens: be, die, become · To what, where: great terror, priest

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (close, great terror), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terror	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terror	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 terror	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 terror	amod
5	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terror	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 die	mark
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 terror	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 faith	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 faith	det
12	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 become	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 become	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 terror	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 children	cc
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wife	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 terror	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	close	no great terror	priest		tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive				for the faith	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for faith=Theme
3	become	would	no great terror			of priest's wife and children	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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