Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 8

But lo! the servant of one of the robbers secretly approached her; they must not see it, otherwise they would have killed him.

Who acts: servant, robbers · What happens: approach, not see, kill · To what, where: Mrs., servant, robbers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, robbers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 approached	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	5 servant	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 servant	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approached	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 servant	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 robbers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 robbers	det
10	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	12 approached	advmod
12	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 approached	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 approached	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 killed	punct
21	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	25 killed	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 killed	nsubj:pass
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 killed	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 killed	aux
25	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 see	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 killed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the servant of one of the robbers	Mrs.	secretly property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	not see	must	robbers = robber	servant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	kill	would · perfect · passive		robbers = robber	otherwise property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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