--- title: There, as my father now and then sent me small sums of money, I spen… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/) / 3 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:43:3 # text = 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. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 conj _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 in in SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 learning learn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 21 navigation navigation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 arts art NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 obl _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 35 advmod _ _ 35 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 ccomp _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | my father | small sums of money | me | there | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sum=Theme | | 2 | **spend** | past | I | sums *= sum* | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | | 3 | **learn** | gerund | I *not said here* | navigation | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent navigation=Topic | | 4 | **travel** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **believe** | past | I | | | | | always *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | would | navigation | some time or my other fortune | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | navigation *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sum** | | | money | | | | | nom 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/43/)