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title: This was a terrible prospect for the beetle, for he could not escape… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a terrible prospect for the beetle, for he could not escape in consequence of being bound to the mast. Who acts: This, beetle. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 126

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This was a terrible prospect for the beetle, for he could not escape in consequence of being bound to the mast.

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**Who acts:** This, beetle · **What happens:** be, not escape, bind · **To what, where:** terrible prospect, consequence

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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 (This, beetle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:8:126
# text = This was a terrible prospect for the beetle, for he could not escape in consequence of being bound to the mast.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | a terrible prospect |  |  |  | for the beetle | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **escape** | could | beetle |  |  | consequence |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bind** | gerund · passive |  | consequence *not said here* |  |  |  | to the mast | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: to mast=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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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