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title: Cannot you give this little maiden something which will make her as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Cannot you give this little maiden something which will make her as strong as twelve men, to overcome the Snow Queen?" Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 18

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Cannot you give this little maiden something which will make her as strong as twelve men, to overcome the Snow Queen?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not give, make, overcome · **To what, where:** something, storm, Snow Queen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. 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:pg27200:175:18
# text = Cannot you give this little maiden something which will make her as strong as twelve men, to overcome the Snow Queen?"
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | can | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | future |  | storm |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 3 | **overcome** | to-infinitive |  | the Snow Queen |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot queen=Theme |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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