--- title: “O sister, sister, reach me your hand!” she cried, as she floated aw… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “O sister, sister, reach me your hand!” she cried, as she floated away, “and you shall have half of all I've got or shall get.” Who acts: sister, you, half. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack Hannaford](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/) / 56 # English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 56 “O sister, sister, reach me your hand!” she cried, as she floated away, “and you shall have half of all I've got or shall get.” **Who acts:** sister, you, half · **What happens:** reach, cry, float away, have, get · **To what, where:** hand, sister · **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, half), 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:pg7439:13:56 # text = “O sister, sister, reach me your hand!” she cried, as she floated away, “and you shall have half of all I've got or shall get.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 O o INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 nmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 parataxis _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** *in a quote* | infinitive | sister and sister | your hand | sister | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary hand=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sister | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **float away** | past | sister | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | half of all | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | shall | half of all *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/57/) - ↑ back to [Jack Hannaford](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/)