More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 109
This terrible visitation brought young Lambton, of Lambton Hall, to his senses.
Who acts: terrible visitation, hall · What happens: bring, sense · To what, where: young Lambton, senses
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 visitation | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 visitation | amod |
| 3 | visitation | visitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Lambton | amod |
| 6 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hall | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hall | case |
| 9 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hall | compound |
| 10 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lambton | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hall | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 senses | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 senses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | senses | sense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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