couldest
Who acts: Thou · What happens: be, wish, go · To what, where: ball · Speech: someone speaks here
«couldest» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: couldest in the Early Modern English dictionary.
Meaning 1
Was able to, with "thou" as the subject.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 able | cop |
| 2 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thou | amod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 able | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 thou | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 subject | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 subject | det |
| 11 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thou | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | able property | tree rules |
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.
Example 1
"Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?"
From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault.
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishest | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 wishest | nsubj |
| 3 | wishest | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | couldest | could | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishest | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ball | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 it | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 it | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wishest | obl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 so | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 wishest | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishest | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Thou | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | could | thou | the ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | ball | tree rules |
Text: the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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