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title: 1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and several instan… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and several instances of violent death occur in the interim. Who acts: 1761, several instances. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 12

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1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and several instances of violent death occur in the interim.

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**Who acts:** 1761, several instances · **What happens:** reach, occur, instance · **To what, where:** John, interim, violent death

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (1761, several instances), 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:pg14241:78:12
# text = 1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and several instances of violent death occur in the interim.
1	1761	1761	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Rhodes	Rhode	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	interim	interim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | 1761 | John  Sir and Knight of Rhodes |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent john=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | present | several instances of violent death |  |  | the interim |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in interim=Location |
| 3 | **instance** |  |  | violent death |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event transitive»: of=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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