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title: As he stood on the gallows he said: “Every one doomed to death has t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he stood on the gallows he said: “Every one doomed to death has the right to speak once before he dies; and I too have that privilege?” Who acts: Trusty, one. 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 96

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As he stood on the gallows he said: “Every one doomed to death has the right to speak once before he dies; and I too have that privilege?”

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**Who acts:** Trusty, one · **What happens:** stand, say, doom, have, speak, die · **To what, where:** gallows, one, right, privilege · **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 (Trusty, one), 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:pg503:41:96
# text = As he stood on the gallows he said: “Every one doomed to death has the right to speak once before he dies; and I too have that privilege?”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Trusty |  |  | the gallows |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gallows=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Trusty |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **doom** *in a quote* | participle |  | every one *not said here* |  |  |  | to death | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | every one | the right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | every one *not said here* | the right *not said here* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** *in a quote* | present | Trusty |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Trusty | that privilege |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=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 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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