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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 days	mark
2	in	in	ADP	_	7 days	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 days	det
4	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stood	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 knee	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grandmother	nmod:poss
13	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knee	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 grandmother	case
15	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shivered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shivered	cc
18	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	conj
19	over	over	ADV	_	18 shivered	advmod
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Bluebeard	punct
21	Bluebeard	Bluebeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 thrilled	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bluebeard	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Bluebeard	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 thrilled	cc
25	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shivered	parataxis
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 Jack	case
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Jack	punct
28	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 thrilled	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 killer	det
30	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 killer	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Giant	punct
32	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thrilled	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 shown	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 shown	punct
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shown	nsubj:pass
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 shown	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 shown	aux
39	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stood	conj
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 shown	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 picture	det
42	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shown	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 picture	nmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 listening	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 listening	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 listening	aux
48	to	to	PART	_	50 listening	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 listening	aux
50	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 shown	advcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 tales	case
52	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 tales	amod
53	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 tales	compound
54	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 listening	obl
55	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 tales	nmod
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 twenty	punct
57	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 years	nummod
58	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 later	obl:unmarked
59	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	50 listening	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 sure	punct
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 sure	nsubj
62	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 sure	cop
63	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stood	advcl
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	69 opened	mark
65	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 eyes	nmod:poss
66	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 opened	nsubj:pass
67	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 opened	aux
68	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 opened	aux
69	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	63 sure	ccomp
70	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 opened	xcomp
71	as	as	ADP	_	72 mine	case
72	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 opened	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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.

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🌲 The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 72