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title: The weather is going to change; I feel it already by the pain in my… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The weather is going to change; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg; the weather is certainly going to change.’ Who acts: weather, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 91

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The weather is going to change; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg; the weather is certainly going to change.’

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**Who acts:** weather, I · **What happens:** go, change, feel · **To what, where:** weather

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, I), 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:pg5615:5:91
# text = The weather is going to change; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg; the weather is certainly going to change.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present · progressive | the weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **change** | to-infinitive | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | present | I | weather |  |  |  | by the pain in my left hind leg | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by pain=Location |
| 4 | **go** | present · progressive | the weather |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **change** | to-infinitive | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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