Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 28

"What a scandalous condition this place is in," said he; never, certainly, had he found his own times so miserable as on this evening. "

Who acts: place, scandalous condition · What happens: be, say, not have, find · To what, where: scandalous condition · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (place, scandalous condition), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 condition	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 in	cop
9	in	in	ADV	_	5 condition	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 had	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 never	punct
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 certainly	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 miserable	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 times	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 times	amod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 found	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 miserable	advmod
26	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 evening	case
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 evening	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 evening	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 miserable	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this place	what scandalous condition not said here		in property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	what scandalous condition				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not have	past	what scandalous condition not said here			certainly property	tree rules
4	find	past	Place		time		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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