English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 59
“O sister, O sister, then reach me your glove!” she cried, as she floated further away, “and you shall have your William again.”
Who acts: sister, you · What happens: reach, cry, float, have · To what, where: glove, sister, William · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 sister | discourse |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 sister | discourse |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reach | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 reach | advmod |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sister | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 reach | obj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 glove | nmod:poss |
| 12 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 floated | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 floated | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 floated | nsubj |
| 20 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | conj |
| 21 | further | further | ADV | _ | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 floated | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 floated | conj |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 William | nmod:poss |
| 30 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 have | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach in a quote | infinitive | your glove | sister | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary glove=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | sister | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | float | past | sister | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | your William | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent william=Patient |
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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