--- title: The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in who… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a riddle rhyme. Who acts: Batten, I, something. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Ja --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XV. Master and Pupil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/) / 2 # English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 2 The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a riddle rhyme. **Who acts:** Batten, I, something · **What happens:** supply, understand, use, raise, occur · **To what, where:** rhymes, Batten, the, Halliwell This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Batten, I, something), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:65:2 # text = The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a riddle rhyme. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rhymes rhyme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 supplied supply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Batten Batten PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 rightly rightly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ---- ---- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 35 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 occurs occur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Halliwell Halliwell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 243 243 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **supply** | present · perfect · passive | Batten Mr. | the rhymes on the open book | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | | 2 | **understand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | Batten | | | | rightly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **use** | present · perfect · passive | | rhymes *= rhyme* | | | | long *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **raise** | gerund | | the | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent the=Theme | | 5 | **occur** | present | something | | | Halliwell and p. | | as a riddle rhyme | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in halliwell=Location | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/3/) - ↑ back to [XV. 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