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title: "Well," says he, "I can't mind nothing else about the weather, but l… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. 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 9

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

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**Who acts:** crops · **What happens:** say, not mind, let, see, get · **To what, where:** M'appen, nothing, crops, fine · **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 (crops), 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:pg14241:26:9
# text = "Well," says he, "I can't mind nothing else about the weather, but let me see; the crops are getting on fine."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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