--- title: The statue spake again: "If you, with your own hand, cut off the hea… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The statue spake again: "If you, with your own hand, cut off the heads of both your children, and sprinkle me with their blood, I shall be brought to life again." Who acts: statue spake. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (statue spake), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:16:99 # text = The statue spake again: "If you, with your own hand, cut off the heads of both your children, and sprinkle me with their blood, I shall be brought to life again." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 If if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 16 off off ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sprinkle sprinkle VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut off** *in a quote* | participle | the statue spake *not said here* | the heads of your children | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 2 | **sprinkle** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the King *= king* | | | with children's blood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with blood=Theme | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | the King *= king* | | life | again | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to life=Destination | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/100/) - ↑ back to [Faithful John](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/16/)