More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 83
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 · What happens: wake, begin, shiver, shake, wonder, cry · To what, where: Lawkamercyme, none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 wake | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wake | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 wake | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wake | aux |
| 7 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wake | punct |
| 9 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shiver | mark |
| 12 | shiver | shiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 shake | mark |
| 18 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 wonder | mark |
| 23 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 began | nsubj |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 began | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 cry | mark |
| 29 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 began | xcomp |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lawkamercyme | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Lawkamercyme | punct |
| 32 | Lawkamercyme | Lawkamercyme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 cry | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 none | punct |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 none | det |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 none | cop |
| 36 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 began | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 I | case |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 none | nmod |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 none | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 none | punct |
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.
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