The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 40

They complained bitterly to the King, and begged and teased him, until he at last consented to have the Princess shut up somewhere out of sight while King Charming’s visit lasted.

Who acts: speeches, King, visit · What happens: complain, beg, tease, consent, have, shut up · To what, where: King, Princess, sight

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (speeches, King, visit), 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	2 complained	nsubj
2	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	2 complained	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 complained	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begged	cc
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complained	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 teased	cc
11	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 begged	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 teased	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 consented	punct
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 consented	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 consented	nsubj
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 consented	mark
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 consented	amod
18	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 begged	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 consented	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Princess	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 shut	compound:prt
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 shut	advmod
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 sight	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 sight	case
28	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shut	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 lasted	mark
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 visit	nmod:poss
31	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 King	flat
32	’s	's	PART	_	30 King	case
33	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lasted	nsubj
34	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shut	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 complained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	past	speeches = speech		the King		bitterly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	past						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	tease	past		King				vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	consent	participle	King					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	to-infinitive	King not said here	the Princess				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	shut up	participle		the Princess not said here		sight	somewhere property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	last	past	King's visit					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
8	visit		King					nom visit «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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