Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 2

The collar had become so old that he began to think about getting married; and one day he happened to find himself in the same washing-tub as a garter. "

Who acts: collar, gentleman · What happens: become, begin, think, marry, happen, find · To what, where: gentleman, same washing tub · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collar, gentleman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 collar	det
2	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 think	mark
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 married	mark
13	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 think	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 happened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 happened	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 happened	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 happened	nsubj
20	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 happened	xcomp
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 find	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	29 tub	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tub	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tub	amod
27	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tub	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 washing	punct
29	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 garter	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 garter	det
32	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tub	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 happened	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the collar				old property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	gentleman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	marry	gerund · passive						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
5	happen	past	gentleman			day		tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here	gentleman	the same washing tub as a garter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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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