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title: This terrible visitation brought young Lambton, of Lambton Hall, to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This terrible visitation brought young Lambton, of Lambton Hall, to his senses. Who acts: terrible visitation, hall. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 109

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This terrible visitation brought young Lambton, of Lambton Hall, to his senses.

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**Who acts:** terrible visitation, hall · **What happens:** bring, sense · **To what, where:** young Lambton, senses

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible visitation, hall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:1668`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:32:109
# text = This terrible visitation brought young Lambton, of Lambton Hall, to his senses.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	visitation	visitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	senses	sense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | this terrible visitation | young Lambton of Lambton Hall |  | hall's senses |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lambton=Theme to sense=Destination |
| 2 | **sense** |  | hall |  |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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