The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 80

‘But cannot you give little Gerda something so that she can have power over her?’

Who acts: you, queen · What happens: give, have · To what, where: something, power

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, queen), 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	_	3 can	cc
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 can	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Gerda	amod
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 something	compound
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	advcl
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	you	something					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	have	can	queen	power				over girl	vn birth-28.2-1 «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: «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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