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title: Never before had he been in such rough and vulgar company. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Never before had he been in such rough and vulgar company. " A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 114

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Never before had he been in such rough and vulgar company. "

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**What happens:** not have, be · **To what, where:** Counsellor, such rough company

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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.

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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:pg27200:41:114
# text = Never before had he been in such rough and vulgar company. "
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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