--- title: That night the mother dreamed that she saw the “good queen,” who tol… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: That night the mother dreamed that she saw the “good queen,” who told her to go to a certain tree in her garden and to lift up a large stone which she would find beneath it. Who acts: mother, bird, good queen. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/41/) [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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/) / 41 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 41 That night the mother dreamed that she saw the “good queen,” who told her to go to a certain tree in her garden and to lift up a large stone which she would find beneath it. **Who acts:** mother, bird, good queen · **What happens:** dream, see, tell, go, lift up, find · **To what, where:** good queen, bird, garden, large stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, bird, good queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:19:41 # text = That night the mother dreamed that she saw the “good queen,” who told her to go to a certain tree in her garden and to lift up a large stone which she would find beneath it. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obj _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 38 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | past | the mother | | | | night | | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** | past | bird | the good queen | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the good queen | | bird | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the good queen *not said here* | | | bird's garden | | to a certain tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **lift up** | to-infinitive | the good queen *not said here* | a large stone | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 6 | **find** | would | bird | a large stone | | | | beneath stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/)