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title: Personally, he was of opinion that he had nothing to fear, yet he th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 15

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:32:15
# text = 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.
1	Personally	personally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	advisable	advisable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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