Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 134

After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams at night: ‘Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.’

Who acts: young queen, husband, Boy, I · What happens: hear, say, make, rap, dream · To what, where: dreams, me, yard measure, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, Boy, I), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 queen	amod
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dreams	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dreams	nmod:poss
13	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
18	Boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Boy	punct
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 heard	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 doublet	det
23	doublet	doublet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pantaloons	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pantaloons	cc
26	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pantaloons	compound
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pantaloons	det
28	pantaloons	pantaloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rap	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 rap	cc
31	else	else	ADV	_	34 rap	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 rap	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 rap	aux
34	rap	rap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 pantaloons	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 measure	det
36	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 measure	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 yard	punct
38	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rap	obj
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 ears	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 ears	nmod:poss
41	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rap	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 pantaloons	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 pantaloons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the young queen			time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	queen's husband		husband's dreams	night		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in dream=Manner
3	make	infinitive	Boy	me				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
4	rap	future	I	the yard measure	your ears		else property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient
5	dream		husband					nom dream «cognition transitive»: 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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