Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 19
The little fellow had a great opinion of his own strength.
Who acts: little fellow · What happens: have, opine · To what, where: great opinion, own strength
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little fellow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 opinion | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opinion | amod |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 strength | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 strength | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strength | amod |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opinion | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the little fellow | a great opinion of fellow's own strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | opine | fellow's own strength | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: 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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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