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The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 3

There, as my father now and then sent me small sums of money, I spent them in learning navigation, and other arts useful to those who travel, as I always believed it would be some time or other my fortune to do.

Who acts: father, I, navigation · What happens: send, spend, learn, travel, believe, be · To what, where: small sums, me, sums, navigation, time, money · Speech: someone speaks here

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, navigation), 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

explpunctmarknmod:possnsubjadvmodccconjobjamodobjcasenmodpunctnsubjconjobjmarkadvclobjpunctccamodnsubjconjcaseoblnsubjacl:relclpunctmarknsubjadvmodconjnsubjauxcopdetccompccamodnmod:possconjmarkaclpunctrootTherePRON,PUNCTasSCONJmyPRONfatherNOUNnowADVandCCONJthenADVsentVERBmePRONsmallADJsumsNOUNofADPmoneyNOUN,PUNCTIPRONspentVERBthemPRONinSCONJlearningVERBnavigationNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJotherADJartsNOUNusefulADJtoADPthosePRONwhoPRONtravelVERB,PUNCTasSCONJIPRONalwaysADVbelievedVERBitPRONwouldAUXbeAUXsomeDETtimeNOUNorCCONJotherADJmyPRONfortuneNOUNtoPARTdoVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem9 sentexpl
2,,PUNCT_9 sentpunct
3asasSCONJ_9 sentmark
4mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fathernmod:poss
5fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing9 sentnsubj
6nownowADVPronType=Dem5 fatheradvmod
7andandCCONJ_8 thencc
8thenthenADVPronType=Dem6 nowconj
9sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 sentobj
11smallsmallADJDegree=Pos12 sumsamod
12sumssumNOUNNumber=Plur9 sentobj
13ofofADP_14 moneycase
14moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing12 sumsnmod
15,,PUNCT_17 spentpunct
16IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 spentnsubj
17spentspendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sentconj
18themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs17 spentobj
19ininSCONJ_20 learningmark
20learninglearnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 spentadvcl
21navigationnavigationNOUNNumber=Sing20 learningobj
22,,PUNCT_26 usefulpunct
23andandCCONJ_26 usefulcc
24otherotherADJDegree=Pos25 artsamod
25artsartNOUNNumber=Plur26 usefulnsubj
26usefulusefulADJDegree=Pos9 sentconj
27totoADP_28 thosecase
28thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem26 usefulobl
29whowhoPRONPronType=Rel30 travelnsubj
30traveltravelVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 thoseacl:relcl
31,,PUNCT_35 believedpunct
32asasSCONJ_35 believedmark
33IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs35 believednsubj
34alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot35 believedadvmod
35believedbelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sentconj
36ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 timensubj
37wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin40 timeaux
38bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf40 timecop
39somesomeDETPronType=Ind40 timedet
40timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing35 believedccomp
41ororCCONJ_44 fortunecc
42otherotherADJDegree=Pos44 fortuneamod
43mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 fortunenmod:poss
44fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing40 timeconj
45totoPART_46 domark
46dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf44 fortuneacl
47..PUNCT_9 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sendpastmy fathersmall sums of moneymetherevn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sum=Theme
2spendpastIsums = sumvn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset
3learngerundI not said herenavigationvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent navigation=Topic
4travelpresentvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5believepastIalways propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6is awouldnavigationsome time or my other fortunetree rules
7doto-infinitivenavigation not said herevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8summoneynom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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