--- title: The queen said with a laugh: “Yes, I am getting old and make mistakes. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics description: The queen said with a laugh: “Yes, I am getting old and make mistakes. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/11/) [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/) / [Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/) / [Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/) / 11 # Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 11 The queen said with a laugh: “Yes, I am getting old and make mistakes. **Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** say, get, make · **To what, where:** mistakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg76982:19:11 # text = The queen said with a laugh: “Yes, I am getting old and make mistakes. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the queen | | | | | with a laugh | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with laugh=Manner | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the queen *= queen* | | | | | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | the queen *= queen* *not said here* | mistakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | 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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/12/) - ↑ back to [Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76982/19/)