Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 63
The longer he spoke with the boatmen, the more unintelligible did their language become to him.
Who acts: man, unintelligible · What happens: speak, become · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, unintelligible), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 longer | det |
| 2 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 boatmen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boatmen | det |
| 7 | boatmen | boatman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unintelligible | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 unintelligible | advmod |
| 11 | unintelligible | unintelligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 become | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 language | nmod:poss |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | nsubj |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoke | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 become | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | with the boatmen; long property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boatman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | become | past · do-support | the unintelligible | man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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