Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 97

At these words the statue began to speak, saying, "Yes, you can make me alive again, if you will bestow on me that which is dearest to you."

Who acts: statue, you · What happens: begin, speak, say, make, bestow, be · To what, where: words, statue, you · 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 (statue, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 began	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
13	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	17 make	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Yes	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saying	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 make	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bestow	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 bestow	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 bestow	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 bestow	aux
25	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 bestow	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 dearest	mark
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 dearest	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dearest	cop
31	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 bestow	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 dearest	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the statue			this words			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the statue not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the statue not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	can	you	the statue = statue			again	alive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
5	bestow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you					on the statue = statue	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present			you			dear property	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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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