Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 86

But the children could neither hear nor understand this, nor should they; for children must not know everything.

Who acts: children · What happens: hear, understand, not know · To what, where: this, everything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	_	6 hear	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	neither	neither	ADV	_	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 understand	cc
8	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hear	conj
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 understand	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 know	cc
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 children	case
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 know	obl
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hear	conj
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 know	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	could	the children		neither property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	infinitive	the children not said here	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	not know	must	children = child	everything	for children	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=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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