More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 20

Mother says I'll ne'er be wiser all my born days; but folks tell us thou canst do everything.

Who acts: Mother, I, folks, thou · What happens: say, bear, be, tell, do · To what, where: wiser born days, us, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, I, folks, thou), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 days	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 days	aux
5	ne'er	ne'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 days	cop
7	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 days	amod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 days	det:predet
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 days	nmod:poss
10	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
14	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 do	nsubj
18	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	ccomp
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 do	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bear	participle				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	future	I	my wiser born days		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	folks		us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do	can	thou	everything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality

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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