The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 103

They were very kindly treated, and that they might not feel dull the King came often to see them.

Who acts: Princess, dull King · What happens: treat, not feel, come, see · To what, where: Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, dull King), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 treated	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 treated	aux:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 kindly	advmod
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	5 treated	advmod
5	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feel	cc
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 feel	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 feel	advmod
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 treated	conj
13	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 King	amod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	ccomp
17	often	often	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	treat	past · passive		Princess	kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	not feel	might	Princess			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past	the dull King		often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the dull King not said here	Princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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