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title: Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names tha… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messengers all over the land to find out new ones. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 138

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Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messengers all over the land to find out new ones.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** lie, think, hear, send, find out · **To what, where:** odd names, messengers, land, new ones

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. 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:pg2591:25:138
# text = Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messengers all over the land to find out new ones.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the queen |  |  |  | now; night | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of all odd names | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | queen | all odd names *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 4 | **send** | past | queen | messengers |  | the land |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 5 | **find out** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | new ones |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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:** «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.

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