English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 38

They carried him to the king, who made Tom his dwarf, and he soon grew a great favourite at court; for by his tricks and gambols he not only amused the king and queen, but also all the Knights of the Round Table.

Who acts: shoes, king, Tom · What happens: carry, make, grow, not amuse, trick · To what, where: Tom, king, dwarf, great favourite, court

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, king, Tom), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 king	acl:relcl
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dwarf	nmod:poss
12	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grew	nsubj
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 grew	advmod
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 favourite	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 favourite	amod
20	favourite	favourite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 court	case
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tricks	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 tricks	case
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 tricks	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tricks	nmod:poss
27	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gambols	cc
29	gambols	gambol	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tricks	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 amused	nsubj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 amused	advmod
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 amused	advmod
33	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tricks	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 amused	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 queen	cc
37	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 king	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Knights	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 Knights	cc
40	also	also	ADV	_	41 all	advmod
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 Knights	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Knights	det
43	Knights	Knight	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 carried	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 Table	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Table	det
46	Round	Round	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Table	compound
47	Table	Table	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Knights	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	shoes = shoe	Tom	the king		all Knights of the Round Table obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination
2	make	past	the king	Tom's dwarf	Tom			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset tom=Beneficiary dwarf=Product
3	grow	past	Tom	a great favourite		court	for Tom's tricks and gambols; soon property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent favourite=Product for trick=Beneficiary
4	not amuse	participle	Tom	the king and queen				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
5	trick		Tom					nom trick «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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