The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 21
Unseen by the rest of the crew the sailor managed to bring him food and drink, and when they were well out of sight of land he proceeded to carry out a plan he had invented to deliver Tiidu from his cramped quarters.
Who acts: sailor · What happens: manage, bring, be, proceed, carry out, invent · To what, where: crew, food, sailor, sight, plan, Tiidu
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 (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 | Unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 rest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unseen | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 crew | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crew | det |
| 7 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sailor | det |
| 9 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 managed | nsubj |
| 10 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crew | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 managed | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drink | cc |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 food | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sight | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sight | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 were | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 were | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sight | cop |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 were | advmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 sight | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sight | case |
| 25 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unseen | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sight | nmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 proceeded | nsubj |
| 29 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sight | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 carry | mark |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 proceeded | xcomp |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 carry | compound:prt |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 plan | det |
| 34 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carry | obj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 invented | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 invented | aux |
| 37 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 plan | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 deliver | mark |
| 39 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 invented | advcl |
| 40 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 deliver | obj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 quarters | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 43 | cramped | cramped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 quarters | amod |
| 44 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 deliver | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unseen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | the sailor | the crew not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the sailor not said here | food and drink | sailor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | sight | of land | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | proceed | past | sailor | sight not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry out | to-infinitive | sailor not said here | a plan | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | invent | past · perfect | sailor | a plan not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | ||||
| 7 | deliver | to-infinitive | sailor not said here | Tiidu | Tiidu's cramped quarters | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tiidu=Theme from quarter=Initial_Location |
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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