Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 84

He told her he could do mental arithmetic, as far as fractions, and that he knew the number of square miles and the number of inhabitants in the country.

Who acts: fur · What happens: tell, do, know · To what, where: queen, mental arithmetic, number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fur), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
7	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arithmetic	amod
8	arithmetic	arithmetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 far	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 do	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 fractions	case
13	fractions	fraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 far	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 knew	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 number	det
20	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knew	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 miles	case
22	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 miles	amod
23	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 number	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 number	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 number	det
26	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 miles	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 inhabitants	case
28	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 number	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 country	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 country	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 inhabitants	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	fur		queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	could	fur	mental arithmetic		far property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arithmetic=Eventuality
3	know	past	fur	the number of square miles and the number of inhabitants in the country			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=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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