Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 63
When the Christians beheld the surcoat, and knew the features of the prince, they were struck with horror, and heart and hand failed them.
Who acts: Christians, heart · What happens: behold, know, strike, fail, feature · To what, where: surcoat, features, Christians, prince
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, heart), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Christians | det |
| 3 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 surcoat | det |
| 6 | surcoat | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beheld | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 features | det |
| 11 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 features | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 struck | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | aux:pass |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 horror | case |
| 20 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 failed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 failed | cc |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 failed | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hand | cc |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | conj |
| 26 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 struck | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 failed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the Christians | the surcoat | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surcoat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the Christians not said here | the features of the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer feature=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | strike | past · passive | Christians = christian | with horror | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with horror=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | heart and hand | Christians = christian | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | feature | the prince | nom feature «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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/13/63/