Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 205
It is useful sometimes to express an opinion;" so he was quite satisfied.
Who acts: care, Ole · What happens: be, express · To what, where: opinion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, Ole), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 useful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 useful | cop |
| 3 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 express | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 express | mark |
| 6 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 useful | advcl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 opinion | det |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 express | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfied | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 satisfied | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 satisfied | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 satisfied | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 satisfied | advmod |
| 15 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 useful | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 useful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | care | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | care not said here | a opinion | sometimes property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Ole | satisfied 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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