Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 23
"But can you not give little Gerda something to help her to conquer this power?"
Who acts: you, Power · What happens: not give, help, conquer · To what, where: something, Power
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, Power), 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 something | compound |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 help | mark |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 something | acl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 conquer | mark |
| 14 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conquer | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | can | you | something | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Power | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conquer in a quote | to-infinitive | Power not said here | this power | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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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