Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 98

These window-panes would not thaw, and he could see nothing of the stove, which he pictured to himself, as if it had been a lovely human being.

Who acts: window panes, Man, stove · What happens: not thaw, see, picture, be · To what, where: nothing, Man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window panes, Man, stove), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 panes	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 panes	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 window	punct
4	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thaw	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thaw	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 thaw	advmod
7	thaw	thaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thaw	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 see	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 stove	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stove	det
16	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pictured	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 pictured	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pictured	nsubj
20	pictured	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nothing	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 pictured	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 human	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 human	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 human	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 human	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 human	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 human	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 human	det
30	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 human	amod
31	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thaw	parataxis
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 human	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thaw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not thaw	would	this window panes				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	see	could	Man	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	picture	past	Man		Man		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme to himself=be'
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	stove			human property	tree rules

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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