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title: On the following morning sentence was passed on Trusty John, and he… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the following morning sentence was passed on Trusty John, and he was condemned to be hanged. Who acts: Trusty John. 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 95

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On the following morning sentence was passed on Trusty John, and he was condemned to be hanged.

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**Who acts:** Trusty John · **What happens:** follow, pass, condemn, hange · **To what, where:** following morning sentence, Trusty

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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 (Trusty John), 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:pg503:41:95
# text = On the following morning sentence was passed on Trusty John, and he was condemned to be hanged.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Trusty	Trusty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past · passive | Trusty John |  |  | the following morning sentence |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sentence=Location |
| 3 | **condemn** | past · passive |  | Trusty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hange** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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