Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 88

The following day passed very pleasantly, and the next was tolerably comfortable; but on the third it became necessary for him to think of getting food for his wife, and, perhaps, for children.

Who acts: following day, next, third · What happens: follow, pass, be, become, think, get · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (following day, next, third), 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	3 day	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 pleasantly	advmod
6	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comfortable	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comfortable	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 next	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 comfortable	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 comfortable	cop
12	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	_	13 comfortable	advmod
13	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 passed	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 third	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 third	det
18	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 became	nsubj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 third	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
21	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 became	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 became	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 became	advcl
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 getting	mark
27	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 think	advcl
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 getting	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 wife	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 getting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 children	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 children	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 perhaps	punct
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	38 children	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 children	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 children	case
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	the following day		for children; pleasantly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the next		comfortable, tolerably property	tree rules
4	become	past	the third		for beetle; necessary property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the third not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	gerund	the third not said here	food	for beetle's wife	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for wife=Beneficiary

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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