English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 102

History tells us that Mr. Whittington and his lady liven in great splendour, and were very happy.

Who acts: History, Whittington · What happens: tell, liven, be · To what, where: us, great splendour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (History, Whittington), 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	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 liven	mark
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Whittington	nmod:desc
6	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 liven	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lady	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lady	nmod:poss
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Whittington	conj
10	liven	liven	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 splendour	case
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 splendour	amod
13	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 liven	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happy	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 happy	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happy	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 happy	advmod
18	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tells	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	History	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	liven	present	Whittington Mr. and History's lady		great splendour		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past				happy property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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