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title: With lips as cold as any stone, They kissed their children small: "G… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With lips as cold as any stone, They kissed their children small: "God bless you both, my children dear!" Who acts: Children, God. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 43

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With lips as cold as any stone, They kissed their children small: "God bless you both, my children dear!"

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**Who acts:** Children, God · **What happens:** kiss, bless · **To what, where:** children, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:25:43
# text = With lips as cold as any stone, They kissed their children small: "God bless you both, my children dear!"
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | Children *= child* | Children's children |  |  |  | with lips; small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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