More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 21

Can't thee teach me a bit, so they'll think me a clever fellow at home?"

Who acts: thee, folks · What happens: not teach, think · To what, where: bit, me

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 (thee, folks), 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	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 teach	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 teach	advmod
3	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 teach	nsubj
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 teach	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teach	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 think	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 think	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fellow	det
15	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellow	amod
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 home	case
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fellow	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not teach speech: other	can	thee	a bit	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	think speech: other	future	folks = folk	me					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme fellow=Attribute

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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