--- title: The spacious stables were filled with the most beautiful horses in t… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Fairy Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/38/) [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/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/) / 38 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29021:15:38 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 spacious spacious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stables stable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 9 advmod _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 coverts covert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 caparison caparison NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 33 obj _ _ 23 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 24 advmod _ _ 24 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 admire admire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 amod _ _ 38 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/39/) - ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)