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title: It is useful sometimes to express an opinion;" so he was quite satis… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It is useful sometimes to express an opinion;" so he was quite satisfied. Who acts: care, Ole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 205

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It is useful sometimes to express an opinion;" so he was quite satisfied.

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**Who acts:** care, Ole · **What happens:** be, express · **To what, where:** opinion

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:134:205
# text = It is useful sometimes to express an opinion;" so he was quite satisfied.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	express	express	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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