Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 5
Don't make your mother die, Emily, or you will have no mother."
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: not make, not die, have · To what, where: Emily, mother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Emily | punct |
| 8 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | imperative · do-support | you not said here | Emily | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not die | infinitive | your mother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | future | you | no mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
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: «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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