The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 2

The servant stayed on with his royal master and served him faithfully all the rest of his life; and, if neither of them is dead, he is serving him still.

Who acts: servant, neither · What happens: stay on, serve, be · To what, where: servant, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, neither), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 master	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 master	amod
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 served	cc
10	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 served	obj
12	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	10 served	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 rest	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 served	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 life	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 serving	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 serving	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 dead	mark
23	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	27 dead	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 neither	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 serving	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dead	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 serving	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 serving	aux
31	serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stayed	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 serving	obj
33	still	still	ADV	_	31 serving	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay on	past	the servant			with servant's royal master	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with master=Location
2	serve	past	the servant not said here	servant		faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	neither			dead property	tree rules
4	serve	present · progressive	servant	king	still		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute

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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