Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 117

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 · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: son, lifetime

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.

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 son	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 son	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 son	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 washer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 washer	det
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 washer	amod
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 washer	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 plate	punct
12	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 learned	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 learned	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 Peter	det
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 learned	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 learned	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 learned	aux
19	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 all	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 lifetime	case
21	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	23 lifetime	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lifetime	det
23	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
25	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 learned	nsubj
26	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 son	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 year	case
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 year	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 learned	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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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