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title: One of them knew the whole Latin dictionary by heart, and three whol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 4

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:28:4
# text = 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.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
40	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc:preconj	_	_
41	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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.

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**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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