The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 23

So they told him that he should have sweet hay and oats, and as much of them as the dappled horse chose to have, and all the other riders had to take their horses out of the stable that Dapplegrim might stand alone and really have plenty of room.

Who acts: stable, King, dappled horse, other riders · What happens: tell, have, dapple, choose, take, stand · To what, where: King, sweet hay, horses, stable, plenty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stable, King, dappled horse, other riders), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hay	amod
10	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 oats	cc
12	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hay	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 much	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 much	nmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 chose	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
21	dappled	dapple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 horse	amod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chose	nsubj
23	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 much	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 chose	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 riders	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 riders	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 riders	amod
31	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 horses	nmod:poss
36	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 take	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 stable	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 stable	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stable	det
40	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 stand	nsubj
42	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 stand	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 stand	aux
44	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 stable	acl:relcl
45	alone	alone	ADV	_	44 stand	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 have	cc
47	really	really	ADV	_	48 have	advmod
48	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 stand	conj
49	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 room	case
51	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 plenty	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	stable		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	should	King	sweet hay and oats				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
3	dapple	participle						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	choose	past	the dappled horse					tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	the dappled horse not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	all other riders					tree rules
7	take	to-infinitive	all other riders not said here	stable's horses		the stable		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme out stable=Initial_Location
8	stand	might	the stable				alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	present	the stable not said here	plenty of room				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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