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title: They said I was very interesting, and it was really quite worth whil… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 84

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:167:84
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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