Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 84

You say you are unhappy; and would you make another mother as unhappy as yourself?"

Who acts: You · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 unhappy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	cop
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	ccomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 unhappy	advmod
14	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 yourself	case
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 unhappy	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	You			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you		unhappy property	tree rules
3	make	would	you	another mother	unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Product

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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