More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 76

When Jan came home, she up and told him what she had done, and he said, "Oh, well, there, never mind, my dear, better luck next time."

Who acts: Jan, mother, stranger · What happens: come up, tell, do, say, not mind · To what, where: stranger, better luck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jan, mother, stranger), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 up	nsubj
7	up	up	ADP	_	3 came	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct
21	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 mind	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Oh	punct
23	well	well	INTJ	_	21 Oh	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Oh	punct
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 Oh	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Oh	punct
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 mind	advmod
28	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dear	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dear	nmod:poss
31	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mind	vocative
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 luck	punct
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 luck	amod
34	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mind	obl
35	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 time	amod
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mind	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Jan				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jan not said here		stranger			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	mother					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	stranger					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not mind in a quote	infinitive		better luck		time	my dear vocative	vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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