Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 93

He had lost his good opinion of the world, as well as of himself; and when a man gives up the world, and himself too, it is all over with him.

Who acts: father, man, world · What happens: lose, give up, be, opine · To what, where: good opinion, world, father

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, man, world), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 opinion	nmod:poss
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 opinion	amod
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opinion	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 himself	punct
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 himself	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 as	fixed
13	as	as	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 as	fixed
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 opinion	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gives	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gives	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 gives	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	nsubj
21	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 gives	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 himself	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 himself	cc
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 gives	iobj
28	too	too	ADV	_	21 gives	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 over	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 over	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 over	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 over	advmod
33	over	over	ADV	_	21 gives	parataxis
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 over	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	father	father's good opinion of the world			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Eventuality
2	give up	present	a man	the world	father		tree rules
3	is	present	world			with father; all, over property	tree rules
4	opine		father	the world			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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