The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 96

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 · What happens: stand, say, doom, have, speak, die · To what, where: gallows, one, right, privilege · Speech: someone speaks here

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.

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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 stood	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 gallows	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gallows	det
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
11	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
13	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 one	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 death	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doomed	obl
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 right	det
18	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 right	acl
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 speak	advmod
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 dies	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dies	nsubj
24	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 has	conj
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 privilege	det
31	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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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