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title: Now when the time of mourning was over, Trusty John said to him: “It… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when the time of mourning was over, Trusty John said to him: “It is time you should see your inheritance. Who acts: time, Trusty, mourning, king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 11

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Now when the time of mourning was over, Trusty John said to him: “It is time you should see your inheritance.

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**Who acts:** time, Trusty, mourning, king, your · **What happens:** be, say, see, inherit · **To what, where:** king, time, inheritance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Trusty, mourning, king), 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:pg503:41:11
# text = Now when the time of mourning was over, Trusty John said to him: “It is time you should see your inheritance.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the time of mourning |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Trusty |  | king |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mourning | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | should | king | your inheritance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inheritance=Stimulus |
| 5 | **inherit** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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