Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 2

But neither the lieutenant nor any one in the street could recognize them as their own, so he gave them up to the police. "

Who acts: lieutenant, watchman · What happens: recognize, give up · To what, where: goloshes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lieutenant, watchman), 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	_	12 recognize	cc
2	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lieutenant	cc:preconj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lieutenant	det
4	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recognize	nsubj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 one	cc
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lieutenant	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 recognize	aux
12	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 recognize	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 recognize	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 gave	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 recognize	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 gave	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 police	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 police	det
25	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gave	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 recognize	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 recognize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognize	could	the lieutenant nor any one in the street	goloshes = golosh				as goloshes's own	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as own=Attribute
2	give up	past	watchman		goloshes = golosh			to the police	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to police=Recipient

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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