More English Fairy Tales, LXXXII. Old Mother Wiggle Waggle, sentence 2
_--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 · What happens: insert, substitute · To what, where: version current, Wiggle
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 inserted | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inserted | aux |
| 5 | inserted | insert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 current | case |
| 7 | Halliwell | Halliwell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 current | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Halliwell | case |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 current | compound |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 version | flat |
| 11 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inserted | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 13 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Batten | case |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 current | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 substituted | punct |
| 18 | except | except | ADP | _ | 22 substituted | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 substituted | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 substituted | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 substituted | aux |
| 22 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 inserted | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wiggle | punct |
| 24 | Wiggle | Wiggle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 substituted | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Waggle | punct |
| 26 | Waggle | Waggle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Wiggle | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Wiggle | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 Slopper | case |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Slopper | punct |
| 30 | Slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Slopper | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Slopper | punct |
| 32 | Slopper | Slopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 substituted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 inserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: «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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