Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 84

They said I was very interesting, and it was really quite worth while to notice that those who are interesting have often not a single word to say for themselves.

Who acts: people, I, Steel · What happens: say, be, notice, have · To what, where: those, single word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I, Steel), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 interesting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 interesting	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 interesting	advmod
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worth	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 worth	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worth	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 worth	cop
11	really	really	ADV	_	13 worth	advmod
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 worth	advmod
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 notice	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 notice	mark
16	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 worth	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 those	mark
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 notice	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 interesting	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 interesting	cop
21	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 those	acl:relcl
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 those	acl:relcl
23	often	often	ADV	_	27 word	advmod
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 word	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 word	det
26	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 word	amod
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 word	acl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 themselves	case
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 say	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I		interesting property	tree rules
3	is	past	Steel		worth property	tree rules
4	notice	to-infinitive	Steel not said here	those		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present			interesting property	tree rules
6	have	present		a single word		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		a single word not said here	for people	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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