Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 24

"I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is?

Who acts: woman, Power, you · What happens: give, have, say, not see, be · To what, where: greater power, Power · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, Power, 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	_	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	15 said	ccomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 greater	advmod
7	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 power	amod
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 has	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	advcl
12	already	already	ADV	_	11 has	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
20	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 strong	advmod
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 see	ccomp
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 strong	dep
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 strong	cop
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	can	the woman = woman	greater power	Power		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	Power				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not see in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present				strong property	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: «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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