Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 96

It was the fate of your child that you saw,--the future of your own child."

Who acts: child, you · What happens: be, see · To what, where: fate, child

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 (child, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 child	nmod:poss
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 saw	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 child	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 future	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 future	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 future	det
14	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 child	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 child	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 child	amod
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 future	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fate	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	child	the fate and the future of your own child				of your child	tree rules
2	see	past	you	your child					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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