The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 19

A young sailor, who had heard him play, came secretly to him, and offered to hide him on board, in the absence of the captain.

Who acts: young sailor, sailor · What happens: hear, play, come, offer, hide, absent · To what, where: sailor, Tiidu, board, captain

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young sailor, sailor), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sailor	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailor	amod
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heard	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sailor	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sailor	punct
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 offered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 offered	cc
17	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 came	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hide	mark
19	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 offered	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hide	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 board	case
22	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hide	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 absence	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 absence	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 absence	det
26	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hide	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 captain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 captain	det
29	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 absence	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	a young sailor	sailor				tree rules
2	play	infinitive	sailor not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	a young sailor		Tiidu		secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	offer	participle	a young sailor not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	hide	to-infinitive	a young sailor not said here	Tiidu		board	in the absence of the captain	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on board=Location
6	absent			the captain				nom absence «state 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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