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title: His opinion of Shakspeare's "Tempest," was, "Mad nonsense! — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His opinion of Shakspeare's "Tempest," was, "Mad nonsense! Who acts: opinion, Sivertsen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 34

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His opinion of Shakspeare's "Tempest," was, "Mad nonsense!

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**Who acts:** opinion, Sivertsen · **What happens:** be, opine · **To what, where:** Mad nonsense, Tempest

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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.

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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:pg27200:139:34
# text = His opinion of Shakspeare's "Tempest," was, "Mad nonsense!
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Shakspeare	Shakspeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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