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title: And yet he was the son of a royal plate-washer; but all that he had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet he was the son of a royal plate-washer; but all that he had learned in half a lifetime, Peter learned in half a year. Who acts: I., Peter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 117

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And yet he was the son of a royal plate-washer; but all that he had learned in half a lifetime, Peter learned in half a year.

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**Who acts:** I., Peter · **What happens:** be, learn · **To what, where:** son, lifetime

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I., Peter), 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:pg27200:39:117
# text = And yet he was the son of a royal plate-washer; but all that he had learned in half a lifetime, Peter learned in half a year.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	washer	washer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | I. | the son |  |  | yet | of a royal plate washer | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past · perfect | I. |  |  | half lifetime |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | past | all Peter | the son *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic |

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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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