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title: One knew the whole Latin dictionary and also three years’ issue of t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 86

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg640:50:86
# text = 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.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
31	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	forwards	forward	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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