More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 9

"Well," says he, "I can't mind nothing else about the weather, but let me see; the crops are getting on fine."

Who acts: crops · What happens: say, not mind, let, see, get · To what, where: M'appen, nothing, crops, fine · 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 (crops), 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 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 getting	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mind	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mind	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 mind	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mind	advmod
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 mind	obj
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 nothing	advmod
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 weather	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 weather	det
17	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 crops	det
25	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 getting	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 getting	aux
27	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 fine	case
29	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 getting	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the crops not said here	M'appen			tree rules
2	not mind in a quote	can	the crops = crop	nothing		about the weather	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive		the crops = crop			tree rules
4	see in a quote	infinitive	the crops = crop not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	get in a quote	present · progressive	the crops		fine		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fine=Source

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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