The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 84

If she cannot by herself conquer the Snow-queen and take away the glass splinters from little Kay, we cannot help her!

Who acts: queen, glass, we · What happens: conquer, take away, splinter, not help · To what, where: Snow queen, little Kay, 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 (queen, glass, 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	_	7 conquer	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 conquer	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 conquer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 herself	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 conquer	nsubj
7	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 help	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
9	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 queen	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Snow	punct
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conquer	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 conquer	conj
14	away	away	ADP	_	13 take	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 glass	det
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 splinters	nsubj
17	splinters	splinter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 take	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 Kay	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Kay	amod
20	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 splinters	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 conquer	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 help	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 help	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 help	advmod
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 help	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	conquer a condition, not said to happen	can	queen	the Snow queen			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient
2	take away	infinitive	queen not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	splinter	present	the glass			little Kay	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not help	can	we		queen		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: «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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