--- title: They fell down to the ground for fright, and were like dead men, but… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They fell down to the ground for fright, and were like dead men, but the prince's younger son crept out of the hole in the fish that the huntsmen had made, went out upon the shore, and sat down. Who acts: fishes, younger son, fish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, younger son, fish), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:25:65 # text = They fell down to the ground for fright, and were like dead men, but the prince's younger son crept out of the hole in the fish that the huntsmen had made, went out upon the shore, and sat down. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 huntsmen huntsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 37 out out ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 44 down down ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall down** | past | fishes *= fish* | | | | | to the ground for fright; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | like dead men | tree rules | | 3 | **creep out** | past | the prince's younger son | the hole in the fish | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location hole=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the fish *not said here* | the huntsmen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **go out** | past | the prince's younger son *not said here* | | | | | upon the shore; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sit down** | past | fishes *= fish* *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/66/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/25/)