Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 134

Heaven knows what he said; but we may be allowed to guess at it.

Who acts: Heaven, we · What happens: know, say, allow, guess · To what, where: we, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, we), 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	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 allowed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 allowed	cc
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	aux:pass
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knows	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 guess	mark
13	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 guess	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	present	Heaven			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	heaven			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	allow	may · passive		we		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	guess not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here		hand	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at it=Value

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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