English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 60
“Sink on,” cried the cruel princess, “no hand or glove of mine you'll touch.
Who acts: cruel princess, you · What happens: sink, cry, touch · To what, where: hand · 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 (cruel princess, 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 | _ | 2 Sink | punct |
| 2 | Sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Sink | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sink | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sink | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 8 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | amod |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 princess | appos |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 glove | cc |
| 15 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mine | case |
| 17 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 glove | nmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 touch | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 touch | aux |
| 20 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hand | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the cruel princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | touch in a quote | future | you | no hand or glove of mine not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Co-Theme |
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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