Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 175

"The less one knows, the less it presses upon one," said Mother Soren.

Who acts: less one, mug, Mother · What happens: know, press, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (less one, mug, Mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 presses	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 less	det
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 presses	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 presses	nsubj
10	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 knows	ccomp
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 presses	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 presses	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the less one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	press in a quote	present	mug	upon one; less property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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