--- title: After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams at night: ‘Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.’ Who acts: young queen, husband, Boy, I. 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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, Boy, I), 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:pg2591:19:134 # text = After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams at night: ‘Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.’ 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 doublet doublet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 pantaloons pantaloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 else else ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 rap rap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the young queen | | | | time | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | queen's husband | | | husband's dreams | night | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in dream=Manner | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | Boy | me | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | | 4 | **rap** | future | I | the yard measure | | your ears | | else *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient | | 5 | **dream** | | husband | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: 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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/135/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)