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title: All night long the Queen racked her brains for all the names she cou… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: All night long the Queen racked her brains for all the names she could think of, and sent a messenger through the country to collect far and wide any new names. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 115

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All night long the Queen racked her brains for all the names she could think of, and sent a messenger through the country to collect far and wide any new names.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** rack, think, send, collect · **To what, where:** brains, names, messenger, country, new names

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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:pg11027:24:115
# text = All night long the Queen racked her brains for all the names she could think of, and sent a messenger through the country to collect far and wide any new names.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	racked	rack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rack** | past | the Queen | Queen's brains |  |  | night | for all names; long *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | could | Queen | all names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | the Queen *not said here* | a messenger |  | the country |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 4 | **collect** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | any new names |  |  |  | far *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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