The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 15

But the King went so often to his dear children that the Queen was offended at his absence.

Who acts: King · What happens: go, offend, absent · To what, where: Queen, absence

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 children	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 children	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 offended	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Queen	det
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 offended	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 offended	aux:pass
15	offended	offend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 absence	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 absence	nmod:poss
18	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 offended	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the King			to king's dear children; often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location
2	offend	past · passive		the Queen	king's absence		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	absent		king				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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