Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 122
“I can give her no more power than what she has already.
Who acts: characters, Queen · What happens: give no, have · To what, where: more power, 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 (characters, Queen), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | no | no | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 power | amod |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 power | nmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 has | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give no in a quote | can | characters = character | more power | Queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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