Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 2

It is not remarkably interesting, but for once in a way you may as well listen to it.

Who acts: you · What happens: not be, listen · To what, where: lamp

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 interesting	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 interesting	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 interesting	advmod
4	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	5 interesting	advmod
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listen	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 listen	cc
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 listen	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 once	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 listen	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 listen	aux
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	17 listen	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 interesting	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 listen	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present						interesting, remarkably property	tree rules
2	listen	may	you		lamp				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme

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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