Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 18
Cannot you give this little maiden something which will make her as strong as twelve men, to overcome the Snow Queen?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not give, make, overcome · To what, where: something, storm, Snow Queen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 something | nsubj |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 something | amod |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 something | amod |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 strong | advmod |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 make | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 men | nummod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strong | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 overcome | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 overcome | mark |
| 20 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 22 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Queen | compound |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 overcome | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | can | you | something | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | future | storm | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 3 | overcome | to-infinitive | the Snow Queen | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot queen=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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