The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 43

I can cure all wounds with a touch; I could cut off my head in one minute, and the next put it sound again on my shoulders.

Who acts: I · What happens: cure, cut off, put, sound · To what, where: wounds, head, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 cure	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cure	aux
3	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 wounds	det
5	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cure	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 touch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 touch	det
8	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cure	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cut	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux
12	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cure	parataxis
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 minute	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 minute	nummod
18	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 next	det
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 put	advcl
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cut	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	xcomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 sound	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 shoulders	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sound	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	can	I	all wounds			with a touch	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer wound=Source
2	cut off	could	I	my head		minute		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	put	infinitive	I not said here	head				tree rules
4	sound	infinitive	I not said here		my shoulders	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=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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