Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 33

Here rests a happy man, that is to say, a man of high birth and position, which was very lucky for him, otherwise he would have been scarcely worth notice.

Who acts: that, man · What happens: rest, be · To what, where: happy man, worth notice

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, man), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 rests	advmod
2	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rests	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 say	nsubj:outer
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rests	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 birth	case
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 birth	amod
16	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 position	cc
18	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 birth	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lucky	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lucky	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lucky	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 lucky	advmod
23	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lucky	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 notice	punct
27	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	34 notice	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 notice	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 notice	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 notice	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 notice	cop
32	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	33 worth	advmod
33	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 notice	amod
34	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rests	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	present		a happy man	here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
2	is	present	that			say property	tree rules
3	is	past	a man of high birth and position			for man; lucky property	tree rules
4	is a	would · perfect	man	worth notice		otherwise 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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