--- title: Every time the King and Queen came to see her they were more delight… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/) / 32 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:3:32 # text = 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. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 14 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 before before ADV RB _ 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 21 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 advcl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 42 advmod _ _ 42 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/33/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/)