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title: A young sailor, who had heard him play, came secretly to him, and of… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A young sailor, who had heard him play, came secretly to him, and offered to hide him on board, in the absence of the captain. Who acts: young sailor, sailor. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 19

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A young sailor, who had heard him play, came secretly to him, and offered to hide him on board, in the absence of the captain.

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**Who acts:** young sailor, sailor · **What happens:** hear, play, come, offer, hide, absent · **To what, where:** sailor, Tiidu, board, captain

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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 (young sailor, sailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:11:19
# text = A young sailor, who had heard him play, came secretly to him, and offered to hide him on board, in the absence of the captain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | a young sailor | sailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | sailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | a young sailor |  | Tiidu |  |  | secretly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **offer** | participle | a young sailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | a young sailor *not said here* | Tiidu |  | board |  | in the absence of the captain | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on board=Location |
| 6 | **absent** |  |  | the captain |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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