Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 3

Still, it is very interesting to hear grandfather tell about it.

Who acts: grandfather · What happens: be, hear, tell · To what, where: grandfather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 interesting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 interesting	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 interesting	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 interesting	advmod
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 interesting	csubj
9	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hear	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			still	interesting property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive		grandfather			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	grandfather not said here			about deal	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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