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title: She thought God could not take her darling little one from her; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 7

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:17:7
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
19	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	xcomp	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
30	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	feverish	feverish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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