Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 138

Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messengers all over the land to find out new ones.

Who acts: queen · What happens: lie, think, hear, send, find out · To what, where: odd names, messengers, land, new ones

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. 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.

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thinking	punct
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 names	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 names	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 names	det
13	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 names	amod
14	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thinking	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 heard	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 heard	advmod
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 names	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sent	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
24	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sent	obj
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 land	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 land	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 land	det
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 land	acl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 find	compound:prt
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ones	amod
33	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 find	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the queen			now; night	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund	the queen not said here				of all odd names	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past · perfect	queen	all odd names not said here		ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	send	past	queen	messengers	the land			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
5	find out	to-infinitive	queen not said here	new ones				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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: «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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