The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 102

The King took him on his knees, and, delighted with his capture, brought him home with him.

Who acts: King, delighted, MONKEY · What happens: take, bring, capture · To what, where: MONKEY, knees

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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, delighted, MONKEY), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 knees	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delighted	punct
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brought	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 capture	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 capture	nmod:poss
14	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 delighted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delighted	punct
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 brought	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the King	MONKEY		MONKEY's knees		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on knee=Destination
2	bring	past	delighted		MONKEY		with MONKEY; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	capture		MONKEY					nom capture «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 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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