The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 36

For the rest of the voyage the ship’s crew treated Tiidu as something higher than themselves, seeing that in all their lives they had never met with any man that could swim for as many hours as he had done.

Who acts: lives, man, Tiidu · What happens: treat, see, not meet, swim, do · To what, where: Tiidu, lives · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lives, man, Tiidu), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 rest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 voyage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 voyage	det
6	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crew	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 ship	case
10	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voyage	nmod
11	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 something	case
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 treated	obl
15	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 something	amod
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 themselves	case
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 higher	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeing	punct
19	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 treated	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 met	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 lives	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 lives	det:predet
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 met	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 met	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 met	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 met	advmod
28	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 seeing	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 met	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 swim	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 swim	aux
34	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 man	acl:relcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 hours	case
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hours	amod
38	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 swim	obl
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 done	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 done	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 done	aux
42	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 swim	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	past		Tiidu			for the rest of the voyage the ship's crew; as something	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tiidu=Theme as something=Attribute
2	see	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not meet	past · perfect	lives = life		ship's lives		with any man	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
4	swim	could	any man			hour		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	past · perfect	Tiidu					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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