The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 75
Cannot you give the little girl a drink so that she may have the strength of twelve men and overcome the Snow-queen?’
Who acts: you, girl · What happens: not give, have, overcome · To what, where: drink, little girl, strength, Snow queen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drink | det |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 have | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strength | det |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 18 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 men | nummod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 strength | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 overcome | cc |
| 21 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 23 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 queen | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Snow | punct |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 overcome | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | can | you | a drink | the little girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | may | girl | the strength of twelve men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | overcome | present | you not said here | 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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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