The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 95
On the following morning sentence was passed on Trusty John, and he was condemned to be hanged.
Who acts: Trusty John · What happens: follow, pass, condemn, hange · To what, where: following morning sentence, Trusty
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 sentence | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sentence | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sentence | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sentence | compound |
| 5 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux:pass |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 John | case |
| 9 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 John | compound |
| 10 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl:agent |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 condemned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 condemned | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 condemned | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 condemned | aux:pass |
| 15 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 passed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hanged | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hanged | aux:pass |
| 18 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 condemned | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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