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title: When the prince saw it, he was like to have died of fright; but they… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 60

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg29672:26:60
# text = 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.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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