Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 60

When the prince saw it, he was like to have died of fright; but they put the bow down in the middle of the courtyard, and all the guests came out to look at it.

Who acts: prince, pounds, guests · What happens: see, be, die, put down, come out, look · To what, where: bow, middle

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pounds, guests), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 like	cop
9	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 died	mark
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 died	aux
12	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 like	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 fright	case
14	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bow	det
20	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	down	down	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 courtyard	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 courtyard	det
27	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 middle	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 guests	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guests	det
32	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
34	out	out	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 look	mark
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 came	advcl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the prince	bow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	past	prince			like property	tree rules
3	die not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect	prince not said here			of fright	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fright=Causer
4	put down	past	pounds = pound	the bow	the middle of the courtyard	down property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in middle=Destination
5	come out	past	all guests			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	look	to-infinitive	all guests not said here			at bow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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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