Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 166

The son of the king of Emania and Trembling had fourteen children, and they lived happily till the two died of old age.

Who acts: son, daughters, two · What happens: have, live, die · To what, where: fourteen children

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, daughters, two), 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 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Emania	case
7	Emania	Emania	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Trembling	cc
9	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Emania	conj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 children	nummod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
17	happily	happily	ADV	_	16 lived	advmod
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 two	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lived	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 age	case
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 age	amod
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the son of the king of Emania and Trembling	fourteen children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	live	past	daughters = daughter			happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	the two		of old age		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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