Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 34
His opinion of Shakspeare's "Tempest," was, "Mad nonsense!
Who acts: opinion, Sivertsen · What happens: be, opine · To what, where: Mad nonsense, Tempest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opinion, Sivertsen), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nonsense | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tempest | case |
| 4 | Shakspeare | Shakspeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tempest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Shakspeare | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tempest | punct |
| 7 | Tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opinion | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 opinion | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 opinion | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nonsense | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nonsense | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nonsense | punct |
| 13 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nonsense | amod |
| 14 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 nonsense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Sivertsen's opinion of Shakspeare's Tempest | Mad nonsense | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | opine | Sivertsen | Shakspeare's Tempest | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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