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title: Unseen by the rest of the crew the sailor managed to bring him food… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unseen by the rest of the crew the sailor managed to bring him food and drink, and when they were well out of sight of land he proceeded to carry out a plan he had invented to deliver Tiidu from his cramped quarters. Who acts: sailor. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimso
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 21

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Unseen by the rest of the crew the sailor managed to bring him food and drink, and when they were well out of sight of land he proceeded to carry out a plan he had invented to deliver Tiidu from his cramped quarters.

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**Who acts:** sailor · **What happens:** manage, bring, be, proceed, carry out, invent · **To what, where:** crew, food, sailor, sight, plan, Tiidu

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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 (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:pg2435:11:21
# text = Unseen by the rest of the crew the sailor managed to bring him food and drink, and when they were well out of sight of land he proceeded to carry out a plan he had invented to deliver Tiidu from his cramped quarters.
1	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
40	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	cramped	cramped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | the sailor | the crew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the sailor *not said here* | food and drink | sailor |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | sight |  | of land | tree rules |
| 4 | **proceed** | past | sailor | sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | sailor *not said here* | a plan |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality |
| 6 | **invent** | past · perfect | sailor | a plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result |
| 7 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | sailor *not said here* | Tiidu |  | Tiidu's cramped quarters |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tiidu=Theme from quarter=Initial\_Location |

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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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