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title: The last of the Lambtons died in his carriage as he was crossing Bru… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The last of the Lambtons died in his carriage as he was crossing Brugeford Bridge, one hundred and thirty years ago. Who acts: last Lambtons, Lambton. 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 cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 18

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The last of the Lambtons died in his carriage as he was crossing Brugeford Bridge, one hundred and thirty years ago.

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**Who acts:** last Lambtons, Lambton · **What happens:** die, cross · **To what, where:** Brugeford Bridge

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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 (last Lambtons, Lambton), 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:pg14241:33:18
# text = The last of the Lambtons died in his carriage as he was crossing Brugeford Bridge, one hundred and thirty years ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Lambtons	Lambton	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	Brugeford	Brugeford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the last Lambtons |  |  |  |  | in Lambton's carriage; ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in carriage=Attribute |
| 2 | **cross** | past · progressive | Lambton | Brugeford Bridge |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient |

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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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