Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 122

All his friends were dead, no one took care of it, and I was then a little boy!”

Who acts: friends, one, I, care · What happens: be, take, care · To what, where: care, little boy

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, one, I, care), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 friends	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 care	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boy	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 boy	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 boy	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 boy	cop
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 boy	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	advcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's friends			dead property	tree rules
2	take	past	no one	care of care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	is a	past	I	a little boy	then		tree rules
4	care		care				nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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