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title: ‘Don’t waggle your head in that horrid way,’ begged Jem anxiously. — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t waggle your head in that horrid way,’ begged Jem anxiously. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 35

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‘Don’t waggle your head in that horrid way,’ begged Jem anxiously.

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**What happens:** not waggle, beg · **To what, where:** head, Jem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:26:35
# text = ‘Don’t waggle your head in that horrid way,’ begged Jem anxiously.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	n't	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waggle	waggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **waggle** | infinitive · do-support |  | your head |  |  |  | in that horrid way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in way=Topic |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  | Jem |  |  | anxiously *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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