The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 3

He had spent some time with them and quite won their hearts by his insinuating ways, when the King discovered where he was and sent to fetch him back.

Who acts: monkey, King · What happens: spend, win, insinuate, discover, send, fetch back · To what, where: hearts, monkey

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, King), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	aux
3	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 won	cc
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 won	advmod
10	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hearts	nmod:poss
12	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 won	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 ways	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ways	nmod:poss
15	insinuating	insinuate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ways	amod
16	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 won	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 discovered	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 discovered	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 discovered	nsubj
21	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ways	parataxis
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 sent	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sent	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sent	aux:pass
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sent	cc
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 discovered	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fetch	mark
28	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sent	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fetch	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 fetch	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect	monkey		time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	win	past	monkey not said here	Zayda's hearts		by monkey's insinuating ways	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
3	insinuate speech: other	gerund					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	discover	past	the King				vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	send	past · passive		monkey			tree rules
6	fetch back	to-infinitive	monkey not said here	monkey			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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