Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 4

One of them knew the whole Latin dictionary by heart, and three whole years of the daily paper of the little town into the bargain, and so well, indeed, that he could repeat it all either backwards or forwards, just as he chose.

Who acts: One, husband · What happens: know, repeat, choose · To what, where: whole Latin dictionary, bargain, dictionary

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, husband), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 knew	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dictionary	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dictionary	amod
7	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dictionary	amod
8	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 heart	case
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dictionary	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 years	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 years	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 years	amod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 paper	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 paper	det
18	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 paper	amod
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 years	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 town	amod
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paper	nmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 bargain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bargain	det
26	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 well	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 well	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 well	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 indeed	punct
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	30 well	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 repeat	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 repeat	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 repeat	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 repeat	aux
37	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 repeat	obj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 it	det
40	either	either	CCONJ	_	41 backwards	cc:preconj
41	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	37 repeat	advmod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 forwards	cc
43	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	41 backwards	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 chose	punct
45	just	just	ADV	_	48 chose	advmod
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 chose	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 chose	nsubj
48	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 repeat	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	One of geniuses	the whole Latin dictionary	the bargain	year	by heart; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dictionary=Stimulus
2	repeat	could	husband	dictionary			backwards property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	choose	past	husband					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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