More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 51

So poor Jack turned back, and when he came in his wife said, "Why, how's this you've come alone?" and he told her what his father had said and his answer.

Who acts: poor Jack, Jack, wife, this, father · What happens: turn back, come, say, tell, answer · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Jack, Jack, wife, this), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Jack	amod
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Why	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Why	punct
17	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 said	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 come	nsubj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 told	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	nsubj
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	iobj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 said	obj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 said	aux
36	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 told	ccomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 answer	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 answer	nmod:poss
39	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	poor Jack			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Jack			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	Jack's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	this		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Jack	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Jack's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
7	answer		Jack			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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