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title: “Sink on,” cried the cruel princess, “no hand or glove of mine you'l… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sink on,” cried the cruel princess, “no hand or glove of mine you'll touch. Who acts: cruel princess, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 60

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“Sink on,” cried the cruel princess, “no hand or glove of mine you'll touch.

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**Who acts:** cruel princess, you · **What happens:** sink, cry, touch · **To what, where:** hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg7439:13:60
# text = “Sink on,” cried the cruel princess, “no hand or glove of mine you'll touch.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sink	sink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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