Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 53

Thus it was for the luckless wooers a bitter sport, for let them exert themselves as they would to beguile the royal maiden into taking anything from their hands, the inevitable lady-in-waiting spoiled their sport.

Who acts: Kaiser, wooers, inevitable lady · What happens: be, let, exert, beguile, take, spoil · To what, where: wooers, royal maiden, anything, hands, sport

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, wooers, inevitable lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thus	thus	ADV	_	7 wooers	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wooers	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wooers	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 wooers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wooers	det
6	luckless	luckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wooers	amod
7	wooers	wooer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sport	det
9	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sport	amod
10	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wooers	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 let	case
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 wooers	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	exert	exert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 exert	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 beguile	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beguile	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 beguile	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 beguile	mark
21	beguile	beguile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 exert	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maiden	det
23	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 maiden	amod
24	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beguile	obj
25	into	into	SCONJ	_	26 taking	mark
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 beguile	advcl
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 taking	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 hands	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taking	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spoiled	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lady	det
33	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lady	amod
34	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spoiled	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 waiting	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 waiting	case
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 in	punct
38	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lady	appos
39	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 let	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sport	nmod:poss
41	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spoiled	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wooers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kaiser			for the luckless wooers and a bitter sport; a bitter sport conj; thus property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive		wooers = wooer			tree rules
3	exert	infinitive	wooers = wooer not said here	wooers = wooer			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	beguile	would	wooers = wooer	the royal maiden			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus maiden=Experiencer
5	take	gerund	wooers = wooer not said here	anything	wooers's hands		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
6	spoil	past	the inevitable lady	wooers's sport			tree rules
7	sport		wooers = wooer				nom sport «act intransitive»: 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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 53