Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 94

He does not know how his mother has suffered; and Heaven grant he never may know it.

Who acts: boy, mother, Heaven · What happens: not know, suffer, grant · To what, where: thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, mother, Heaven), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 suffered	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffered	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suffered	aux
9	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 grant	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Heaven	cc
12	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 grant	nsubj
13	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 know	advmod
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 grant	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	suffer	present · perfect	boy's mother		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	grant	present	Heaven		tree rules
4	not know	may	boy	thing	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=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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