English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 42

On hearing this, the king carried Tom to his treasury, the place where he kept all his money, and told him to take as much money as he could carry home to his parents, which made the poor little fellow caper with joy.

Who acts: king, Tom, parents · What happens: hear, carry, keep, tell, take, make · To what, where: this, Tom, treasury, money, much money, parents · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, Tom, parents), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 carried	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hearing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	nsubj
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 treasury	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 treasury	nmod:poss
11	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treasury	appos
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 kept	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 place	acl:relcl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 money	det:predet
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 money	nmod:poss
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 money	amod
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 carry	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carry	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 carry	aux
33	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	advcl
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 carry	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 parents	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 parents	nmod:poss
37	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 carry	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 made	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 made	nsubj
40	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 parents	acl:relcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 caper	det
42	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 caper	amod
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 caper	amod
44	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 caper	amod
45	caper	caper	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 made	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 joy	case
47	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 caper	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the king not said here	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	carry	past	the king	Tom		Tom's treasury		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tom=Theme to treasury=Destination
3	keep	past	Tom	Tom's money				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the king not said here		Tom			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	much money				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	carry	could	Tom		Tom's parents		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to parent=Destination
7	make	past	Tom's parents	the poor little fellow caper			with joy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset caper=Product

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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