Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 7

She thought God could not take her darling little one from her; and when it did happen notwithstanding her hopes and her belief, and there could be no more doubt on the subject, she said in her feverish agony, "God does not know it.

Who acts: mother, God, it, more doubt · What happens: think, not take, happen, notwithstand, be, say · To what, where: darling little one, hopes, feverish agony, doubt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, God, it, more doubt), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod:poss
8	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 happen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 happen	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 happen	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happen	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
19	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 happen	xcomp
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hopes	nmod:poss
21	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 notwithstanding	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 belief	cc
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 belief	nmod:poss
24	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hopes	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 be	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 be	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 be	expl
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 happen	conj
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 doubt	amod
32	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 be	nsubj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 subject	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 subject	det
35	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 doubt	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 agony	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 agony	nmod:poss
41	feverish	feverish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 agony	amod
42	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 know	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 know	punct
45	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 know	nsubj
46	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 know	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 know	advmod
48	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 know	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	mother				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take	could	God	mother's darling little one		from mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme from she=Initial_Location
3	happen	past · do-support	it				tree rules
4	notwithstand	gerund		mother's hopes and mother's belief			tree rules
5	can	could	more doubt on the subject		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	mother		mother's feverish agony		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in agony=Manner
7	not know in a quote	present · do-support	God	doubt			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	hope		mother				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
9	believe		mother				nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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