Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 25

But the more he talked with the boatmen the less they could understand each other.

Who acts: bridge, lamps · What happens: talk, understand · To what, where: each

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge, lamps), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 talked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 more	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 talked	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 boatmen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boatmen	det
8	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talked	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 less	det
10	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 understand	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 understand	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	aux
13	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 talked	parataxis
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 understand	obj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	bridge					with the boatmen	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boatman=Co-Agent
2	understand	could	lamps = lamp	each				less property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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