--- title: You can imagine the Queen’s delight at hearing the name, and when th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: You can imagine the Queen’s delight at hearing the name, and when the little man stepped in shortly afterward and asked: “Now, my lady Queen, what’s my name?” she asked first: “Is your name Conrad?” Who acts: You, delight, little man, lady. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/226/) [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/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Lea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/) / 226 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 226 You can imagine the Queen’s delight at hearing the name, and when the little man stepped in shortly afterward and asked: “Now, my lady Queen, what’s my name?” she asked first: “Is your name Conrad?” **Who acts:** You, delight, little man, lady, Queen · **What happens:** imagine, hear, step in, ask, be, delight · **To what, where:** delight, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, delight, little man, lady), 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:pg503:13:226 # text = You can imagine the Queen’s delight at hearing the name, and when the little man stepped in shortly afterward and asked: “Now, my lady Queen, what’s my name?” she asked first: “Is your name Conrad?” 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 at at SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 afterward afterward ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 30 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 40 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 “ " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 46 Conrad Conrad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | can | You | the Queen's delight | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot delight=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | gerund | the Queen's delight *not said here* | the name | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | | 3 | **step in** | past | the little man | | | | | afterward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the little man *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my lady | my name | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | my lady | | | | now | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | your name | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **delight** | | the Queen | | | | | | nom delight «feeling 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/225/) - next →: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/227/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)