Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 48

When they found him, his hand was still warm; but it would have been impossible to recognize his face.

Who acts: branches, hand, it · What happens: find, be, recognize · To what, where: Rudy, face

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, hand, it), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 found	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 warm	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warm	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 warm	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 warm	advmod
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 impossible	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 impossible	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 impossible	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 impossible	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 impossible	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 impossible	cop
17	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 warm	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 recognize	mark
19	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 impossible	csubj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 face	nmod:poss
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recognize	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	branches = branch	Rudy			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	is	past	Rudy's hand		still	warm property	tree rules
3	is	would · perfect	it			impossible property	tree rules
4	recognize	to-infinitive		Rudy's face			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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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