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title: So I was to be got rid of in the darkness, and be again insulted in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So I was to be got rid of in the darkness, and be again insulted in broad daylight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 28

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So I was to be got rid of in the darkness, and be again insulted in broad daylight.

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**What happens:** be, insult · **To what, where:** I, broad daylight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. 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.

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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:pg27200:167:28
# text = So I was to be got rid of in the darkness, and be again insulted in broad daylight.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	insulted	insult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | get, rid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **insult** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | broad daylight | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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