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title: The Childe of Lambton swam ashore, and raising his bugle to his lips… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Childe of Lambton swam ashore, and raising his bugle to his lips, sounded its note thrice. Who acts: Childe. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 10

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The Childe of Lambton swam ashore, and raising his bugle to his lips, sounded its note thrice.

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**Who acts:** Childe · **What happens:** swim, raise, sound · **To what, where:** bugle, lips, note thrice

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg14241:33:10
# text = The Childe of Lambton swam ashore, and raising his bugle to his lips, sounded its note thrice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bugle	bugle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
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	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the Childe of Lambton |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | the Childe of Lambton *not said here* | Childe's bugle |  | Childe's lips |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bugle=Theme to lip=Destination |
| 3 | **sound** | past | the Childe of Lambton *not said here* | bugle's note thrice |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thrice=Theme |

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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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