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title: The following night the elder lady dreamt that she saw the Good Quee… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The following night the elder lady dreamt that she saw the Good Queen, who said, ‘Do not weep any longer but follow my directions. Who acts: elder lady, child, Good Queen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 11

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The following night the elder lady dreamt that she saw the Good Queen, who said, ‘Do not weep any longer but follow my directions.

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**Who acts:** elder lady, child, Good Queen · **What happens:** follow, dreamt, see, say, not weep · **To what, where:** Good Queen, directions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder lady, child, Good 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:pg640:23:11
# text = The following night the elder lady dreamt that she saw the Good Queen, who said, ‘Do not weep any longer but follow my directions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	any	any	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dreamt** | past | the elder lady |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | child | the Good Queen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Good Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **weep** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **follow** | infinitive |  | my directions |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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