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title: But neither the lieutenant nor any one in the street could recognize… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 2

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

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:44:2
# text = But neither the lieutenant nor any one in the street could recognize them as their own, so he gave them up to the police. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc:preconj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lieutenant	lieutenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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