The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 86

One knew the whole Latin dictionary and also three years’ issue of the daily paper of the town off by heart, so that he could repeat it all backwards or forwards as you pleased.

Who acts: One, paper, three years · What happens: know off, repeat, forward, issue · To what, where: whole Latin dictionary, dictionary, daily paper

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, paper, three years), 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	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dictionary	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dictionary	amod
5	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dictionary	amod
6	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 issue	cc
8	also	also	ADV	_	12 issue	advmod
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 issue	nmod:poss
11	’	's	PART	_	10 years	case
12	issue	issue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 paper	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 paper	det
15	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 paper	amod
16	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 issue	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paper	nmod
20	off	off	ADP	_	2 knew	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 heart	case
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 repeat	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 repeat	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 repeat	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 repeat	aux
28	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 repeat	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 it	det
31	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	28 repeat	advmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 forwards	cc
33	forwards	forward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 repeat	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 pleased	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 pleased	nsubj
36	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 forwards	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know off	past	One	the whole Latin dictionary	by heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dictionary=Stimulus
2	repeat	could	paper	dictionary	backwards property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	forward	present	paper not said here			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	issue		three years	the daily paper of the town		nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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