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title: Will you give the little maiden a potion, that she may possess the s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Will you give the little maiden a potion, that she may possess the strength of twelve men, and vanquish the Snow Queen?” Who acts: you, maiden. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 113

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Will you give the little maiden a potion, that she may possess the strength of twelve men, and vanquish the Snow Queen?”

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**Who acts:** you, maiden · **What happens:** give, possess, vanquish · **To what, where:** little maiden, strength, Snow Queen

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:14:113
# text = Will you give the little maiden a potion, that she may possess the strength of twelve men, and vanquish the Snow Queen?”
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	vanquish	vanquish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | you | the little maiden |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient potion=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** | may | maiden | the strength of twelve men |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot strength=Theme |
| 3 | **vanquish** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Snow Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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