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title: When he came home his father said, "You must go and try your luck to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came home his father said, "You must go and try your luck to-morrow," and the third day it seemed as if it would be the same thing over again. Who acts: Gobborn, father, You, it. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, with its dependency 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 30

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When he came home his father said, "You must go and try your luck to-morrow," and the third day it seemed as if it would be the same thing over again.

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**Who acts:** Gobborn, father, You, it, luck · **What happens:** come, say, go, try, seem, be · **To what, where:** luck · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn, father, You, it), 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:pg14241:20:30
# text = When he came home his father said, "You must go and try your luck to-morrow," and the third day it seemed as if it would be the same thing over again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	over	over	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Gobborn |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gobborn's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | your luck |  |  |  | to morrow | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  | again; day |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | luck |  |  |  |  | as the same thing | tree rules |

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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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