The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 106

Suddenly the stone began to speak, and said: “Yes, you can restore me to life again if you are prepared to sacrifice what you hold most dear.”

Who acts: stone, you · What happens: begin, speak, say, restore, prepare, sacrifice · To what, where: stone, life, you · 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 (stone, 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 restore	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 restore	punct
12	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	16 restore	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 restore	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 restore	aux
16	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 restore	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 life	case
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 restore	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	16 restore	advmod
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 prepared	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 prepared	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 prepared	aux:pass
24	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 restore	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sacrifice	mark
26	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 prepared	xcomp
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 sacrifice	obj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hold	nsubj
29	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 dear	advmod
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hold	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the stone				suddenly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the stone not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the stone not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	restore in a quote	can	you	the stone = stone	life	again		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to life=Recipient
5	prepare a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		you				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
6	sacrifice not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive						vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme
7	hold in a quote	present	you				dear property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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