Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 28

Then one by one the worn-out crew were helped on board.

What happens: help · To what, where: out crew, board

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 one	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crew	det
6	worn	worn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 out	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 worn	punct
8	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crew	compound
9	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helped	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 helped	aux:pass
11	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 one	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 board	case
13	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helped	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past · passive		the out crew		board			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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