--- title: The King was delighted with the little creature and kept him always… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29), with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Hazel-nut Child (29)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/) / 42 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:40:42 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 10 advmod _ _ 13 beside beside ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/43/) - ↑ back to [The Hazel-nut Child (29)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/40/)