Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 105

Then he replied, "My dear wife, we can restore his life again to him, but it will cost us both our little sons, whom we must sacrifice."

Who acts: John, dear wife, faith, both, we · What happens: reply, restore, cost, son, sacrifice · To what, where: life, John, us, little sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, dear wife, faith, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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