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title: At last the Childe of Lambton came home to his father's Hall, after… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the Childe of Lambton came home to his father's Hall, after seven long years spent in meditation and repentance on holy soil. Who acts: last Childe. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 121

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At last the Childe of Lambton came home to his father's Hall, after seven long years spent in meditation and repentance on holy soil.

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**Who acts:** last Childe · **What happens:** come, spend · **To what, where:** Hall, seven long years, meditation

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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 (last Childe), 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:pg14241:32:121
# text = At last the Childe of Lambton came home to his father's Hall, after seven long years spent in meditation and repentance on holy soil.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the last Childe of Lambton |  |  | Childe's father's Hall | year | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spend** | participle |  | seven long years *not said here* |  | meditation and repentance on holy soil |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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