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title: "I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the wom… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is? Who acts: woman, Power, 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 ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 24

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"I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is?

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**Who acts:** woman, Power, you · **What happens:** give, have, say, not see, be · **To what, where:** greater power, Power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, Power, 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:pg27200:175:24
# text = "I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	dep	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | the woman *= woman* | greater power | Power |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Power |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | 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:** «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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