Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 45
That's the opinion of most of them down there, and the opinion is goo-goo-good!"
Who acts: That, opinion · What happens: be · To what, where: opinion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, opinion), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 opinion | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opinion | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 opinion | det |
| 4 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 most | case |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 there | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 most | nmod |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opinion | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 good | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 opinion | det |
| 14 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 16 | goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 goo | punct |
| 18 | goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 good | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 opinion | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 opinion | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the opinion | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the opinion | good property | 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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