Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 48

He says you have a mother who is good for nothing.

Who acts: Many, you, mother · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 good	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 good	cop
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 good	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Many			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	you	a mother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
3	is	present	a mother		for nothing; good property	tree rules

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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