More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 18

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 · What happens: die, cross · To what, where: Brugeford Bridge

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 last	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Lambtons	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Lambtons	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lambtons	det
5	Lambtons	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 carriage	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 carriage	nmod:poss
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 crossing	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crossing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crossing	aux
13	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 died	advcl
14	Brugeford	Brugeford	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bridge	compound
15	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 crossing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hundred	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundred	compound
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thirty	cc
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hundred	conj
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ago	obl:unmarked
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	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

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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