Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 12

Oh, indeed, it would be worth while to hear my history; but I do not speak it aloud, for a good reason--because I cannot."

Who acts: it, I · What happens: be, hear, not speak · To what, where: history, cage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 worth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	1 Oh	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worth	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 worth	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 worth	cop
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 hear	mark
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hear	mark
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 worth	csubj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 history	nmod:poss
13	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 speak	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 speak	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 speak	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 speak	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 speak	advmod
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 worth	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	obj
21	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	19 speak	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reason	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 reason	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 reason	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reason	amod
26	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speak	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 can	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 can	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 can	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 reason	acl:relcl
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 can	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 worth	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	it		worth property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive		my history		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus
3	not speak speech: other	present · do-support	I	cage	for a good reason; aloud property	tree rules

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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