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title: The servant stayed on with his royal master and served him faithfull… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 2

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg2435:3:2
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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