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title: They complained bitterly to the King, and begged and teased him, unt… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 40

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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.

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

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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.

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**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:pg7277:2:40
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	teased	tease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
33	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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