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title: _--I have inserted into Halliwell's version one current in Mr. Batte… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--I have inserted into Halliwell's version one current in Mr. Batten's family, except that I have substituted "Wiggle-Waggle" for "Slipper-Slopper." Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle, sentence 2

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\_--I have inserted into Halliwell's version one current in Mr. Batten's family, except that I have substituted "Wiggle-Waggle" for "Slipper-Slopper."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** insert, substitute · **To what, where:** version current, Wiggle

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg14241:75:2
# text = _--I have inserted into Halliwell's version one current in Mr. Batten's family, except that I have substituted "Wiggle-Waggle" for "Slipper-Slopper."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Batten	Batten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	except	except	ADP	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	substituted	substitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Wiggle	Wiggle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Waggle	Waggle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Slopper	Slopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insert** | present · perfect | I |  |  | Halliwell's version current in Batten  Mr.'s family |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **substitute** | present · perfect | I | Wiggle and Waggle |  |  |  | for Slipper Slopper | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme wiggle=Location |

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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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