The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 81
‘I can give her no greater power than she has already; don’t you see how great it is?
Who acts: I, queen, you, power · What happens: give, have, not see, be · To what, where: greater power, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, queen, 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 | _ | 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 | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 great | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 see | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 great | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 great | cop |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | I | greater power | queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not see | infinitive · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | power | great 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: «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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