Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 41

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Who acts: man · What happens: become, read, be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wiser	det
2	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 becomes	nsubj
5	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wiser	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 read	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 more	det
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 read	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 read	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 read	aux
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wiser	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 those	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 those	cc
14	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 wiser	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wisest	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wisest	cop
17	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 those	nmod
18	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wisest	acl
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 read	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	present	a man		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	read	future	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		wise property	tree rules
4	read	participle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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