--- title: They carried him to the king, who made Tom his dwarf, and he soon gr… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/38/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/) / 38 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:28:38 # text = 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. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 favourite favourite NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 gambols gambol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 amused amuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 also also ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 43 det:predet _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Knights Knight PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Round Round PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Table Table PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/39/) - ↑ back to [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/)