More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 24
Thou 'lt be a fool all thy days till thou gets a coat o' clay; and then thou 'lt know more than me."
Who acts: lt, thou · What happens: be, get, know · To what, where: fool, coat, more
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 (lt, 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 days | nsubj |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fool | punct |
| 3 | lt | lt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fool | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fool | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thou | conj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 days | det:predet |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 days | nmod:poss |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 gets | mark |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 days | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coat | det |
| 14 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | obj |
| 15 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 clay | case |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 clay | punct |
| 17 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coat | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 know | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 know | advmod |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 know | nsubj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 lt | punct |
| 23 | lt | lt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thou | conj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 days | parataxis |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 know | obj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 more | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | lt | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | thou | a coat of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | present | thou | more | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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