The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 4

There were plenty of fine horses in the stalls, but to the king’s astonishment Moti chose a poor little rat of a pony that was used to carry grass and water for the rest of the stable.

Who acts: plenty, Moti, king · What happens: be, choose, use, carry, astonish · To what, where: poor little rat, pony, grass

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, Moti, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 horses	case
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plenty	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stalls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stalls	det
9	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horses	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chose	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 chose	cc
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 astonishment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 astonishment	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chose	obl
17	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 chose	nsubj
18	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rat	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rat	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rat	amod
22	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chose	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pony	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pony	det
25	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rat	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 used	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 used	aux:pass
28	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 pony	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 carry	mark
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	xcomp
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 water	cc
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grass	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 rest	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rest	det
36	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 stable	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stable	det
39	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rest	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	plenty of fine horses in the stalls		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose	past	Moti	a poor little rat of a pony		to the king's astonishment	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
3	use	past · passive		a pony			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	carry	to-infinitive		grass and water		for the rest of the stable	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
5	astonish		the king				nom astonishment «feeling 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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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