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title: The following day passed very pleasantly, and the next was tolerably… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 88

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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.

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

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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 (following day, next, third), 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:pg27200:8:88
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	nsubj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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