couldst

Who acts: Thou, Pots, mother · What happens: be, conquer, do, bury, not hide, cry · To what, where: Circe, thou, Pots, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

«couldst» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, 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: couldst 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 only couldst have conquered Circe.

From Tanglewood Tales.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 conquered	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 conquered	advmod
3	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 conquered	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 conquered	aux
5	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 conquered	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 conquered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	could · perfect	Thou	Circe					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circe=Patient

Example 2

Pots of money didst thou bury but thou couldst not hide them.

From Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 didst	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 money	case
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pots	nmod
4	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 didst	obj
6	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 didst	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hide	cc
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 hide	nsubj
9	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	11 hide	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hide	advmod
11	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bury	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hide	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 didst	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Pots of money	thou	tree rules
2	bury	infinitive	Pots of money not said here		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not hide	could	thou	Pots = pot	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Example 3

"O mother, mother," cried Cadmus, "couldst thou but have seen my sister before this hour!"

From Tanglewood Tales.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 mother	discourse
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cried	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 seen	nsubj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 hour	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	mother and mother						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	could · perfect	thou	my sister			hour		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus

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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