--- title: When the Christians beheld the surcoat, and knew the features of the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:13:63 # text = When the Christians beheld the surcoat, and knew the features of the prince, they were struck with horror, and heart and hand failed them. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 surcoat surcoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 features feature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/13/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/13/64/) - ↑ back to [Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/13/)