Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 118

A short time afterwards the young Queen heard her husband talking in his sleep, saying, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure over your shoulders!"

Who acts: young Queen, husband, Tailor · What happens: hear, talk, say, make, stitch up, lay · To what, where: husband, sleep, coat, trowsers, yard measure, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Queen, husband, Tailor), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl:unmarked
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Queen	amod
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 husband	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sleep	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sleep	nmod:poss
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 talking	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	Boy	boy	INTJ	_	21 make	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Boy	punct
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saying	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coat	det
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stitch	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stitch	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 stitch	advmod
28	stitch	stitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 stitch	compound:prt
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 trowsers	det
31	trowsers	trowser	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stitch	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 lay	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	aux
36	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 measure	det
38	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 measure	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 yard	punct
40	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obj
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 shoulders	case
42	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 shoulders	nmod:poss
43	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 measure	nmod
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	the young Queen	Queen's husband			time	tree rules
2	talk	gerund	Queen's husband not said here			Tailor's sleep		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	gerund	Queen's husband not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	infinitive		a coat	Queen's husband = husband			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary coat=Product
5	stitch up in a quote	infinitive	the young Queen not said here	this trowsers			then	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trowser=Product
6	lay in a quote	future	Queen's husband = husband	the yard measure		your shoulders		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent measure=Theme over shoulder=Destination
7	sleep		Tailor					nom sleep «state 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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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