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title: "What a scandalous condition this place is in," said he; never, cert… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 28

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

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

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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: who acts (place, scandalous condition), 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:pg27200:41:28
# text = "What a scandalous condition this place is in," said he; never, certainly, had he found his own times so miserable as on this evening. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	scandalous	scandalous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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