The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 108

The stone continued: “If you cut off with your own hand the heads of your two children, and smear me with their blood, I shall come back to life.”

Who acts: stone, you, King · What happens: continue, cut off, smear, come back · To what, where: King, life · 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, King), 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	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 smear	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 smear	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 cut	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 smear	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
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	8 cut	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heads	det
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hand	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 children	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 children	nmod:poss
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 children	nummod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heads	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 smear	cc
22	smear	smear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 continued	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 smear	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 blood	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 blood	nmod:poss
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 smear	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 smear	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 life	case
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the stone				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cut off a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			with your own hand	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	smear in a quote	infinitive	the stone not said here	the King = king		with stones's blood	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with blood=Theme
4	come back in a quote	shall	the King = king		life		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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