Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 136

All his friends are dead; no one took care of him, and I was only a little boy."

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

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, riddance), 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	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres 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 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc 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	only	only	ADV	_	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	other	roles by
1	is	present	riddance's friends		dead property	tree rules
2	take	past	no one	care of riddance		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	is a	past	I	a little boy		tree rules
4	care		riddance			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: «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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