The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 68

There was certainly plenty of room for a dozen beggars, for the only occupants of the stable were an old donkey and a thin ox; and as the night was bitter, the wizard lay down between them for warmth, with a sack of reeds for a pillow.

Who acts: plenty, only occupants, night, wizard · What happens: be, lie down · To what, where: old donkey

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, only occupants, night, wizard), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plenty	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 beggars	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dozen	det
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 beggars	nummod
10	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 room	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 occupants	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 occupants	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 occupants	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 occupants	amod
15	occupants	occupant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 donkey	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 stable	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stable	det
18	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 occupants	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 donkey	cop
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 donkey	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 donkey	amod
22	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ox	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ox	det
25	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ox	amod
26	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 donkey	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 bitter	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bitter	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 bitter	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bitter	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bitter	cop
33	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wizard	det
36	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	nsubj
37	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bitter	conj
38	down	down	ADV	_	37 lay	advmod
39	between	between	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lay	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 warmth	case
42	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sack	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 sack	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sack	det
46	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	parataxis
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 reeds	case
48	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 sack	nmod
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 pillow	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 pillow	det
51	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 reeds	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	plenty of room for dozen beggars		there	certainly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the only occupants of the stable	a old donkey and a thin ox			tree rules
3	is	past	the night			bitter property	tree rules
4	lie down	past	the wizard			between occupants = occupant; for warmth; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location

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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