Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 43

You are a bad father to your own children, as I have told you already, when I hatched my first brood.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, tell, hatch · To what, where: bad father, you, first brood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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, I), 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	5 father	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 father	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 father	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 father	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 told	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 father	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	already	already	ADV	_	14 told	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hatched	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 hatched	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hatched	nsubj
20	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brood	nmod:poss
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 brood	amod
23	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hatched	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a bad father		to your own children	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	hatch	past	I	my first brood			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent brood=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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