More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 13

Tom could never rightly mind what he said next. '

Who acts: Tom · What happens: not mind, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mind	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mind	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 mind	advmod
4	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	5 mind	advmod
5	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mind	ccomp
9	next	next	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mind	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	could	Tom					rightly property	vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Tom					next property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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