--- title: If in the far, sweet days when I stood at my grandmother’s knee, and… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics description: If in the far, sweet days when I stood at my grandmother’s knee, and shivered over “Bluebeard,” or thrilled at “Jack the Giant-killer,” some one could have shown us a picture of me as I was to be listening to other fairy tales twenty-five years later, I am sure that her eyes would have opened wide a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/72/) [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 man who married the moon, and othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/) / [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/) / 72 # The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 72 If in the far, sweet days when I stood at my grandmother’s knee, and shivered over “Bluebeard,” or thrilled at “Jack the Giant-killer,” some one could have shown us a picture of me as I was to be listening to other fairy tales twenty-five years later, I am sure that her eyes would have opened wide as mine. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** stand, shiver over, show, listen, be, open · **To what, where:** knee, one, eyes This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg77804:2:73 # text = If in the far, sweet days when I stood at my grandmother’s knee, and shivered over “Bluebeard,” or thrilled at “Jack the Giant-killer,” some one could have shown us a picture of me as I was to be listening to other fairy tales twenty-five years later, I am sure that her eyes would have opened wide as mine. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 shivered shiver VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Bluebeard Bluebeard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 thrilled thrilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 killer killer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ” " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 35 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux _ _ 39 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 40 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ _ 45 as as SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 aux _ _ 50 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 53 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ _ 55 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 58 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl:unmarked _ _ 59 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 62 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 63 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 64 that that SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 65 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 66 nmod:poss _ _ 66 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 69 nsubj:pass _ _ 67 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 68 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 69 aux _ _ 69 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 63 ccomp _ _ 70 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 xcomp _ _ 71 as as ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 72 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | I | | | my grandmother's knee | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at knee=Location | | 2 | **shiver over** | past | I *not said here* | | | | | over *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **show** | could · perfect · passive | | some one | | | | us *obj*; a picture of me *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **listen** | past · progressive | I | | | | | to other fairy tales twenty; late *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **open** | would · perfect · passive | | Bluebeard's eyes | | | | as mine; wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/73/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Story-tellers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77804/2/)