Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 2

There was only one cretin amongst them, a poor idiot boy, one of those unfortunate beings who, in their neglected conditions, go from house to house, and are received and taken care of in different families, for a month or two at a time.

Who acts: one cretin, unfortunate beings, people · What happens: be, neglect, go, receive, take, condition · To what, where: house, care, different families

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 (one cretin, unfortunate beings, people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cretin	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cretin	nummod
5	cretin	cretin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cretin	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boy	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
11	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	compound
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cretin	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 boy	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 beings	case
16	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 beings	det
17	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beings	amod
18	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 go	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 conditions	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 conditions	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 conditions	nmod:poss
23	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 conditions	amod
24	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 go	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 conditions	punct
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 beings	acl:relcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 house	case
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 house	case
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 received	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 received	cc
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 received	aux:pass
34	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 taken	cc
36	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 received	conj
37	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 taken	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	36 taken	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 families	case
40	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 families	amod
41	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 taken	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 month	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 month	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 month	det
45	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 taken	obl:unmarked
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 two	cc
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 month	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 time	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 time	det
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 taken	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	one cretin amongst people and a poor idiot boy		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	neglect	participle						vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive	that unfortunate beings		house		to house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location to house=Destination
4	receive	present · passive						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»
5	take	participle		care	different families	month; time		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent care=Value in family=Location
6	condition		people					nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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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