--- title: When the Prince entered this chamber he was horrified to see that do… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: When the Prince entered this chamber he was horrified to see that down both sides of it were stretched the bodies of many scores of men, women and children, who lay there fully dressed, but to all appearance quite lifeless. Who acts: Prince, sides, bodies. 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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 (Prince, sides, bodies), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:17:117 # text = When the Prince entered this chamber he was horrified to see that down both sides of it were stretched the bodies of many scores of men, women and children, who lay there fully dressed, but to all appearance quite lifeless. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 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 aux:pass _ _ 9 horrified horrify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 obj _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 scores score NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 35 fully fully ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 42 quite quite ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 lifeless lifeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the Prince | this chamber | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **horrify** | past · passive | | window | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see down** | to-infinitive | | that | | | | both sides *obj*; down *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stretch** | past · passive | both sides *not said here* | chamber | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **lie** | past | the bodies of many scores of men and women and children | | | there | | who *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dress** | participle | the bodies of many scores of men and women and children *not said here* | | | | | fully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **score** | | | men and women and children | | | | | nom score «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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/17/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/17/118/) - ↑ back to [The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/17/)