The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 42

But the faithful servant, who had seen everything, let down a little boat into the sea, unobserved by them, and rowed after his master while the traitors sailed on.

Who acts: faithful servant, traitors · What happens: see, let down, unobserv, row, sail · To what, where: everything, little boat, sea

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faithful servant, traitors), 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	_	11 let	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 servant	acl:relcl
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 seen	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 let	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boat	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boat	amod
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unobserved	punct
20	unobserved	unobserv	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sea	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 unobserved	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rowed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rowed	cc
25	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 let	parataxis
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 master	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rowed	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 sailed	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 traitors	det
31	traitors	traitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sailed	nsubj
32	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rowed	advcl
33	on	on	ADV	_	32 sailed	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	the faithful servant	everything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
2	let down	infinitive	the faithful servant	a little boat	the sea			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	unobserv	participle		the sea not said here			by feet = foot	tree rules
4	row	past				after King's master		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	sail	past	the traitors					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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