More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 23

Nay, I can't teach thee nought, lad; but I tell thee summat.

Who acts: I · What happens: not teach, tell · To what, where: thee, summat · 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 (I), 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	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	6 teach	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nay	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 teach	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 teach	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 teach	advmod
6	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 teach	obj
8	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 teach	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lad	punct
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nought	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 teach	parataxis
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 tell	iobj
16	summat	summat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not teach speech: other	can	I	thee					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient nought=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	summat	thee				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient summat=Topic

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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