--- title: The Strange Visitor — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: The Strange Visitor, «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A woman was sitting at her reel one night; And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / The Strange Visitor # The Strange Visitor The Strange Visitor of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 48 sentences and 537 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/1/) — A woman was sitting at her reel one night; And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/2/) — In came a pair of broad broad soles, and sat down at the fireside; - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/3/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/4/) — In came a pair of small small legs, and sat down on the broad broad soles; - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/5/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/6/) — In came a pair of thick thick knees, and sat down on the small small legs; - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/7/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/8/) — In came a pair of thin thin thighs, and sat down on the thick thick knees; - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/9/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/10/) — In came a pair of huge huge hips, and sat down on the thin thin thighs; - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/11/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/12/) — In came a wee wee waist, and sat down on the huge huge hips; - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/13/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/14/) — In came a pair of broad broad shoulders, and sat down on the wee wee waist; - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/15/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/16/) — In came a pair of small small arms, and sat down on the broad broad shoulders; - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/17/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/18/) — In came a pair of huge huge hands, and sat down on the small small arms; - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/19/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/20/) — In came a small small neck, and sat down on the broad broad shoulders; - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/21/) — And still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/22/) — In came a huge huge head, and sat down on the small small neck. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/23/) — “How did you get such broad broad feet?” quoth the woman. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/24/) — “Much tramping, much tramping” (\_gruffly\_). - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/25/) — “How did you get such small small legs?” - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/26/) — “Aih-h-h!-late--and wee-e-e--moul” (\_whiningly\_). - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/27/) — “How did you get such thick thick knees?” - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/28/) — “Much praying, much praying” (\_piously\_). - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/29/) — “How did you get such thin thin thighs?” - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/30/) — “Aih-h-h!--late--and wee-e-e--moul” (\_whiningly\_). - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/31/) — “How did you get such big big hips?” - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/32/) — “Much sitting, much sitting” (\_gruffly\_). - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/33/) — “How did you get such a wee wee waist?” - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/34/) — “Aih-h-h!--late--and wee-e-e-moul” (\_whiningly\_). - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/35/) — “How did you get such broad broad shoulders?” - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/36/) — “With carrying broom, with carrying broom” (\_gruffly\_). - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/37/) — “How did you get such small small arms?” - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/38/) — “Aih-h-h!--late--and wee-e-e--moul” (\_whiningly\_.) - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/39/) — “How did you get such huge huge hands?” - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/40/) — “Threshing with an iron flail, threshing with an iron flail” (\_gruffly\_). - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/41/) — “How did you get such a small small neck?” - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/42/) — “Aih-h-h!--late--wee-e-e--moul” (\_pitifully\_). - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/43/) — “How did you get such a huge huge head?” - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/44/) — “Much knowledge, much knowledge” (\_keenly\_). - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/45/) — “What do you come for?” - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/46/) — “FOR YOU!” - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/47/) — (\_At the top of the voice, with a wave of the arm and a stamp of the feet. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/38/48/) — \_) - ← previous: [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/) - next →: [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/) - ↑ back to [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/)