Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 15

Personally, he was of opinion that he had nothing to fear, yet he thought it advisable to send somebody else first to see how matters stood.

Who acts: office, matters · What happens: be, have, fear, think, send, see · To what, where: nothing, opinion, somebody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (office, matters), 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	Personally	personally	ADV	_	6 opinion	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Personally	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 opinion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opinion	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 opinion	case
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opinion	advcl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 had	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fear	mark
12	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 thought	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opinion	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	obj
18	advisable	advisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 send	mark
20	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 advisable	xcomp
21	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 send	obj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 somebody	advmod
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 send	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 send	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 stood	advmod
27	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 opinion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	office		of opinion; personally property	tree rules
2	have	past	office	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	fear	to-infinitive	office not said here	nothing not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	past	office	opinion	advisable property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	send	to-infinitive	office not said here	somebody	first property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	office not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	stand	past	matters			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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