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title: So they told him that he should have sweet hay and oats, and as much… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 23

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**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:pg540:38:23
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dappled	dapple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	really	really	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
49	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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