More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 4
"It'll maybe rain," says he, and fidgeted from one foot to t' other.
Who acts: It, rain · What happens: rain, say, fidget · To what, where: he, one foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, rain), 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 rain | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rain | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rain | aux |
| 4 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 rain | advmod |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rain | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rain | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fidgeted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fidgeted | cc |
| 12 | fidgeted | fidget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 foot | nummod |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fidgeted | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 t | case |
| 17 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fidgeted | obl |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 t | punct |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fidgeted | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain in a quote | future | It | maybe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | rain | he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fidget | participle | one foot | to t | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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