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description: _--This is a pure bit of animal satire, which might have come from a rural Jefferies with somewhat more of wit than the native writer. Who acts: _, pure bit. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle, sentence 5

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\_--This is a pure bit of animal satire, which might have come from a rural Jefferies with somewhat more of wit than the native writer.

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**Who acts:** \_, pure bit · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** pure bit, rural Jefferies

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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 (\_, pure bit), 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:pg14241:75:5
# text = _--This is a pure bit of animal satire, which might have come from a rural Jefferies with somewhat more of wit than the native writer.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Jefferies	Jeffery	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | \_ | a pure bit |  |  |  | of animal satire | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | might · perfect | a pure bit |  |  | a rural Jefferies |  | with more wit than the native writer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from jeffery=Initial\_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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