The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 81

History further relates that they lived very happy, had several children, and died at a good old age.

Who acts: History, parties · What happens: relate, live, have, die · To what, where: several children, good old age

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (History, parties), 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	History	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 relates	nsubj
2	further	further	ADV	_	3 relates	advmod
3	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 lived	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relates	advcl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 happy	advmod
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
11	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 died	cc
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relates	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 age	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 age	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 age	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 age	amod
20	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 relates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	relate	present	History			further property	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	parties = party			happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	parties = party not said here	several children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	die	past	History not said here		at a good old age		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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