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title: “But can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “But can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her with power over the whole?” Who acts: you. 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 121

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“But can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her with power over the whole?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, take, endue · **To what, where:** nothing, Queen, whole

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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), 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:pg1597:14:121
# text = “But can you give little Gerda nothing to take which will endue her with power over the whole?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	endue	endue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | can | you | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **endue** *in a quote* | future |  | Queen |  | the whole |  | with power | 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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