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title: Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle hopped out of bed, Out of the window she po… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle hopped out of bed, Out of the window she popped her old head; "Oh! husband, oh! husband, the grey goose is gone, And the fox is off to his den, oh!" Who acts: Old Mother, mother, grey goose, fox. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy T
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 62

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Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle hopped out of bed, Out of the window she popped her old head; "Oh! husband, oh! husband, the grey goose is gone, And the fox is off to his den, oh!"

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**Who acts:** Old Mother, mother, grey goose, fox · **What happens:** hop, pop, be · **To what, where:** bed, old head, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Mother, mother, grey goose, fox), 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:pg14241:31:62
# text = Old Mother Wiggle-Waggle hopped out of bed, Out of the window she popped her old head; "Oh! husband, oh! husband, the grey goose is gone, And the fox is off to his den, oh!"
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Wiggle	Wiggle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Waggle	Waggle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
28	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	off	off	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	40	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | past | Old Mother and Waggle |  |  | bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bed=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pop** | past | mother | mother's old head |  | the window |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the grey goose |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the fox |  |  |  |  | to rest's den; off *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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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