The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 42

The King was delighted with the little creature and kept him always beside him, and he soon grew so fond of the little man that he gave him a diamond four times as big as himself.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, keep, grow, give · To what, where: King, diamond, man

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 creature	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 kept	advmod
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grew	nsubj
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 grew	advmod
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 fond	advmod
21	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fond	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 gave	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grew	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 diamond	det
31	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 times	nummod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 big	obl:unmarked
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 big	advmod
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gave	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 big	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			with the little creature; delighted property	tree rules
2	keep	past	the King not said here	King		beside King; always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme beside he=Location
3	grow	past	King			fond, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	King	a diamond	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient diamond=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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