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The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 115

Then he spake: “Dear wife, we can restore him to life, but the price asked is our two little sons; we must sacrifice them.”

Who acts: Dear wife, price, we · What happens: restore, ask, be, sacrifice · To what, where: king, life, two little sons, thoughts

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 (Dear wife, price, we), 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

advmodnsubjpunctpunctamodnsubjpunctnsubjauxparataxisobjcaseoblpunctccdetnsubjaclcopnmod:possnummodamodoblpunctnsubjauxconjobjpunctpunctrootThenADVhePRONspakeNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTDearADJwifeNOUN,PUNCTwePRONcanAUXrestoreVERBhimPRONtoADPlifeNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETpriceNOUNaskedVERBisAUXourPRONtwoNUMlittleADJsonsNOUN;PUNCTwePRONmustAUXsacrificeVERBthemPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 spakeadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 spakensubj
3spakespeakNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4::PUNCT_11 restorepunct
5“"PUNCT_11 restorepunct
6DeardearADJDegree=Pos7 wifeamod
7wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 restorensubj
8,,PUNCT_7 wifepunct
9wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs11 restorensubj
10cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin11 restoreaux
11restorerestoreVERBVerbForm=Inf3 spakeparataxis
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 restoreobj
13totoADP_14 lifecase
14lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 restoreobl
15,,PUNCT_24 sonspunct
16butbutCCONJ_24 sonscc
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 pricedet
18pricepriceNOUNNumber=Sing24 sonsnsubj
19askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 priceacl
20isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 sonscop
21ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 sonsnmod:poss
22twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card24 sonsnummod
23littlelittleADJDegree=Pos24 sonsamod
24sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur11 restoreobl
25;;PUNCT_28 sacrificepunct
26wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs28 sacrificensubj
27mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin28 sacrificeaux
28sacrificesacrificeVERBVerbForm=Inf11 restoreconj
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sacrificeobj
30..PUNCT_3 spakepunct
31”"PUNCT_3 spakepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1restore in a quotecanDear wifekinglifevn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Recipient
2ask speech: ask in a quotepastthe price not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is a in a quotepresentthe priceour two little sonstree rules
4sacrifice in a quotemustwethoughts = thoughtvn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=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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