Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 27

If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.

Who acts: Power, you, we · What happens: not obtain, remove, do, help · To what, where: access, glass fragments, little Kay, nothing, 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 (Power, you, we), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 obtain	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 obtain	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 obtain	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 obtain	advmod
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 obtain	nsubj
6	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 remove	advcl
7	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Queen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
10	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Queen	compound
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 remove	cc
14	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fragments	det
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fragments	compound
17	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remove	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 Kay	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Kay	amod
20	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fragments	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 remove	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 do	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 remove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not obtain a condition, not said to happen	can	Power	access			to the Snow Queen	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Theme
2	remove	imperative	you not said here	the glass fragments		little Kay		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme from kay=Source
3	do	can	we	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	help	to-infinitive	we not said here	nothing not said here	Power			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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