The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 32

Every time the King and Queen came to see her they were more delighted with her than before, but though she was weary of the tower, and often begged them to take her away from it, they always refused.

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: come, see, be, beg, take away, refuse · To what, where: Queen, King, tower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Queen	cc
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	conj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 delighted	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 delighted	cop
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 delighted	advmod
14	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 see	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 delighted	obl
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 before	case
18	before	before	ADV	_	14 delighted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 refused	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 refused	cc
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 weary	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 weary	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 weary	cop
24	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 refused	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tower	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tower	det
27	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weary	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 begged	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 begged	cc
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 begged	advmod
31	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 weary	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 begged	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 begged	xcomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weary	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 refused	nsubj
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 refused	advmod
42	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the King and Queen				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the King and Queen not said here	Queen					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	is	past	King					with Queen; delighted property	tree rules
4	is	past	Queen					of the tower; weary property	tree rules
5	beg speech: request	past	Queen not said here		King			often property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	Queen		tower		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme from it=Initial_Location
7	refuse	past	King					always property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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