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title: That night as he lay trembling in bed the little old woman lay there… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That night as he lay trembling in bed the little old woman lay there in place of the dog, crying "Majnun, Majnun, I want to marry you. Who acts: man, little old woman. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 7

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That night as he lay trembling in bed the little old woman lay there in place of the dog, crying "Majnun, Majnun, I want to marry you.

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**Who acts:** man, little old woman · **What happens:** lie, tremble, cry, want, marry · **To what, where:** bed, place, Majnun, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, little old woman), 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:pg7128:13:7
# text = That night as he lay trembling in bed the little old woman lay there in place of the dog, crying "Majnun, Majnun, I want to marry you.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | man |  |  |  | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  | bed |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the little old woman |  |  | place of the dog; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the little old woman *not said here* | Majnun and Majnun |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic |
| 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the little old woman *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **marry** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the little old woman *= woman* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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