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title: So the false slave was put to death, that none might follow in his f… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the false slave was put to death, that none might follow in his footsteps, and the wedding feast was held, and the hearts of all rejoiced that the true bridegroom had come at last. Who acts: none, hearts, true bridegroom. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, pa
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 40

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So the false slave was put to death, that none might follow in his footsteps, and the wedding feast was held, and the hearts of all rejoiced that the true bridegroom had come at last.

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**Who acts:** none, hearts, true bridegroom · **What happens:** put, follow, hold, rejoice, come · **To what, where:** false slave, footsteps, wedding feast, last

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, hearts, true bridegroom), 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:pg5615:23:40
# text = So the false slave was put to death, that none might follow in his footsteps, and the wedding feast was held, and the hearts of all rejoiced that the true bridegroom had come at last.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	_
30	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive |  | the false slave |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **follow** | might | none |  |  | slave's footsteps |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in footstep=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the wedding feast |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **rejoice** | participle | the hearts of all |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | the true bridegroom |  |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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