--- title: A short time afterwards the young Queen heard her husband talking in… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: A short time afterwards the young Queen heard her husband talking in his sleep, saying, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure over your shoulders!" Who acts: young Queen, husband, Tailor. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Vali --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/118/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/) / 118 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 118 A short time afterwards the young Queen heard her husband talking in his sleep, saying, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure over your shoulders!" **Who acts:** young Queen, husband, Tailor · **What happens:** hear, talk, say, make, stitch up, lay · **To what, where:** husband, sleep, coat, trowsers, yard measure, shoulders · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Queen, husband, Tailor), 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:pg11027:13:118 # text = A short time afterwards the young Queen heard her husband talking in his sleep, saying, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure over your shoulders!" 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Boy boy INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 stitch stitch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 trowsers trowser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the young Queen | Queen's husband | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | Queen's husband *not said here* | | | Tailor's sleep | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | gerund | Queen's husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a coat | Queen's husband *= husband* | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary coat=Product | | 5 | **stitch up** *in a quote* | infinitive | the young Queen *not said here* | this trowsers | | | then | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trowser=Product | | 6 | **lay** *in a quote* | future | Queen's husband *= husband* | the yard measure | | your shoulders | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent measure=Theme over shoulder=Destination | | 7 | **sleep** | | Tailor | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/119/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)