Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 73
“Thou say'st that thou art so unhappy, and now thou wilt make another mother equally unhappy.”
Who acts: thou · What happens: make
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say'st | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 say'st | nsubj |
| 3 | say'st | say'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 art | obj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say'st | acl:relcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 unhappy | advmod |
| 8 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 art | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 make | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 art | conj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unhappy | nsubj |
| 17 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 18 unhappy | advmod |
| 18 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say'st | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say'st | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | future | thou | now | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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: «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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