The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 38

The spacious stables were filled with the most beautiful horses in the world, and coverts of rich caparison; but what most astonished strangers who came to admire them was to see, in the finest stall, a master donkey, with great long ears.

Who acts: astonished strangers · What happens: fill, come, admire, see · To what, where: spacious stables, strangers, finest stall

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonished strangers), 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	3 stables	det
2	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stables	amod
3	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 filled	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 filled	aux:pass
5	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 horses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horses	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horses	amod
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 filled	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horses	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 coverts	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 coverts	cc
16	coverts	covert	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 horses	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 caparison	case
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 caparison	amod
19	caparison	caparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coverts	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 what	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 see	obj
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 astonished	advmod
24	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 strangers	amod
25	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 what	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 strangers	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 admire	mark
29	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 admire	obj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 filled	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stall	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 stall	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stall	det
37	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 stall	amod
38	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 donkey	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 donkey	det
41	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 donkey	compound
42	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stall	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ears	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	47 ears	case
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ears	amod
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ears	amod
47	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 see	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		the spacious stables		with the beautiful horses in the world and coverts of rich caparison	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with horse=Instrument
2	come	past	astonished strangers				tree rules
3	admire	to-infinitive	astonished strangers not said here	strangers = stranger			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	see	past			the finest stall and a master donkey	with great long ears	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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