More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 43

With lips as cold as any stone, They kissed their children small: "God bless you both, my children dear!"

Who acts: Children, God · What happens: kiss, bless · To what, where: children, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, God), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 lips	case
2	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kissed	obl
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lips	amod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lips	punct
9	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kissed	nsubj
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kissed	obj
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kissed	xcomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 bless	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 bless	punct
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bless	nsubj
17	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kissed	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bless	obj
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 you	nmod:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dear	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dear	nsubj
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bless	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 bless	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 bless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Children = child	Children's children				with lips; small property	tree rules
2	bless in a quote	infinitive	God	you					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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