Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 9

He had become quite a member of the family in which he dwelt; they received money to keep him, so that his mother got rid of him altogether.

Who acts: growth, weeds, mother · What happens: become, dwell, receive, keep, get · To what, where: member, family, money, growth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (growth, weeds, mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	6 member	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 member	det
6	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 family	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 member	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dwelt	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dwelt	nsubj
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 family	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 received	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 received	nsubj
16	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 become	parataxis
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 received	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 received	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keep	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 got	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 received	conj
27	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 got	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 rid	obl
30	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	26 got	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	growth	quite member of the family			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	dwell	past	growth		the family		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	receive	past	weeds = weed	money			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	weeds = weed not said here	growth			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	get	past	growth's mother			altogether, rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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