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title: ‘Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,’ it c… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,’ it cried. Who acts: you, I, tree. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 39

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‘Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,’ it cried.

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**Who acts:** you, I, tree · **What happens:** shake, pray, be, cry · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2591:22:39
# text = ‘Shake me, shake me, I pray; my apples, one and all, are ripe,’ it cried.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme apple=Destination |
| 2 | **shake** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **pray** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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