English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 57
“No, sister, I'll reach you no hand of mine, for I am the heir to all your land.
Who acts: sister · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: hand, you
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 reach | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sister | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 7 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 reach | aux |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 reach | obj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mine | case |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heir | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 heir | case |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 heir | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 heir | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heir | det |
| 19 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 land | det:predet |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 land | nmod:poss |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heir | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach in a quote | future | sister | no hand of mine | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | sister | for the heir; to your land | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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