Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 113
Will you give the little maiden a potion, that she may possess the strength of twelve men, and vanquish the Snow Queen?”
Who acts: you, maiden · What happens: give, possess, vanquish · To what, where: little maiden, strength, Snow Queen
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 potion | det |
| 8 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 possess | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 possess | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 possess | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 possess | aux |
| 13 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 strength | det |
| 15 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possess | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 men | nummod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 strength | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 vanquish | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 vanquish | cc |
| 21 | vanquish | vanquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 23 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Queen | compound |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 vanquish | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | the little maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient potion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | possess | may | maiden | the strength of twelve men | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanquish | infinitive | you not said here | the Snow Queen | 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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