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title: He sent me to Cambridge at fourteen years old, and after studying th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 2

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg503:43:2
# text = 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.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cambridge	Cambridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Bates	bate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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