The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 2

He sent me to Cambridge at fourteen years old, and after studying there three years I was bound apprentice to Mr. Bates, a famous surgeon in London.

Who acts: father, I · What happens: send, study, be · To what, where: me, Cambridge, bound apprentice

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Cambridge	case
5	Cambridge	Cambridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 old	obl:unmarked
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 studying	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 studying	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 studying	mark
13	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sent	advcl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 studying	advmod
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 studying	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 apprentice	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 apprentice	cop
19	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 apprentice	amod
20	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 studying	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Bates	case
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Bates	nmod:desc
23	Bates	bate	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 apprentice	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surgeon	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 surgeon	det
26	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 surgeon	amod
27	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 apprentice	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 London	case
29	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 surgeon	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	father	me	Cambridge			old obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to cambridge=Destination
2	study	gerund	father not said here			there	year		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	I	bound apprentice				to Bates Mr.	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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