Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 114
Never before had he been in such rough and vulgar company. "
What happens: not have, be · To what, where: Counsellor, such rough company
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 company | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 company | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 company | amod |
| 8 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 company | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vulgar | cc |
| 10 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rough | conj |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 company | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 company | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | Counsellor | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | such rough company | tree rules |
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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