Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 85

But no, that would be too silly; and Heaven only knows if they are up still.”

Who acts: that, Heaven, Heavens · What happens: be, know

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Heaven, Heavens), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 silly	cc
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 silly	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 no	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 silly	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 silly	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 silly	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 silly	advmod
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 knows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knows	cc
11	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 knows	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 knows	advmod
13	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 silly	conj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 up	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 up	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
17	up	up	ADV	_	13 knows	ccomp
18	still	still	ADV	_	17 up	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 silly	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 silly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	that		silly property	tree rules
2	know	present	Heaven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Heavens = heaven	still	up 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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