--- title: When this old woman first did wake, She began to shiver, and she beg… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When this old woman first did wake, She began to shiver, and she began to shake; She began to wonder, and she began to cry-- "Lawkamercyme, this is none of I!" Who acts: old woman, woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:20:83 # text = When this old woman first did wake, She began to shiver, and she began to shake; She began to wonder, and she began to cry-- "Lawkamercyme, this is none of I!" 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 shiver shiver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 wonder wonder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Lawkamercyme Lawkamercyme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 10 parataxis _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wake** | past · do-support | this old woman | | | | | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **begin** | past | woman | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **shiver** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **begin** | past | woman | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **shake** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **begin** | past | woman | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **begin** | past | woman | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | Lawkamercyme | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawkamercyme=Topic | | 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | none | | | | of Gobborn | tree rules | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/84/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/)