The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 127

After a time the Queen heard her husband saying one night in his sleep: “My lad, make that waistcoat and patch these trousers, or I’ll box your ears.”

Who acts: Queen, husband, lad, tailor · What happens: hear, say, make, box, sleep · To what, where: husband, sleep, waistcoat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave 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 (Queen, husband, lad, 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 night	nummod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obl:unmarked
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	9 saying	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
17	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lad	nmod:poss
18	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lad	punct
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	parataxis
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 waistcoat	det
22	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 patch	cc
24	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waistcoat	conj
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 trousers	det
26	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 box	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 box	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 box	nsubj
30	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 box	aux
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	parataxis
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ears	nmod:poss
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 box	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	the Queen	Queen's husband		time	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Queen's husband not said here		husband's sleep	night	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in sleep=Manner
3	make in a quote	infinitive	My lad	that waistcoat and patch			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset waistcoat=Beneficiary trousers=Product
4	box in a quote	future	the tailor = tailor				tree rules
5	sleep		husband				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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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