Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 121
“But can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her with power over the whole?”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, take, endue · To what, where: nothing, Queen, whole
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), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Gerda | amod |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | compound |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nothing | acl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 endue | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 endue | aux |
| 13 | endue | endue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 endue | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 power | case |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 endue | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 whole | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 whole | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 endue | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | can | you | nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | nothing not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | endue in a quote | future | Queen | the whole | with power | 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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