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title: "It'll maybe rain," says he, and fidgeted from one foot to t' other. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It'll maybe rain," says he, and fidgeted from one foot to t' other. Who acts: It, rain. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 4

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"It'll maybe rain," says he, and fidgeted from one foot to t' other.

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**Who acts:** It, rain · **What happens:** rain, say, fidget · **To what, where:** he, one foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg14241:26:4
# text = "It'll maybe rain," says he, and fidgeted from one foot to t' other.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fidgeted	fidget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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