Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 99

The statue spake again: "If you, with your own hand, cut off the heads of both your children, and sprinkle me with their blood, I shall be brought to life again."

Who acts: statue spake · What happens: cut off, sprinkle, bring · To what, where: heads, King, life

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 spake), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spake	det
2	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spake	compound
3	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 spake	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 hand	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hand	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 hand	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hand	amod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spake	acl
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 heads	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heads	det
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 children	case
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 children	det
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heads	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sprinkle	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sprinkle	cc
25	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sprinkle	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 blood	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 blood	nmod:poss
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprinkle	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brought	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 brought	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 brought	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 brought	aux:pass
34	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sprinkle	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 life	case
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	obl
37	again	again	ADV	_	34 brought	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spake	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off in a quote	participle	the statue spake not said here	the heads of your children					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	sprinkle in a quote	infinitive			the King = king			with children's blood	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with blood=Theme
3	bring in a quote	shall · passive		the King = king		life	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to life=Destination

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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