More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 66
No, my good fellow, learn wit from a wiser man than thyself.
Who acts: good fellow · What happens: learn · To what, where: wit
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good fellow), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 learn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 learn | punct |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 thyself | case |
| 14 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 12 man | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | infinitive | my good fellow | wit | from a wiser man than thyself | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wit=Topic from man=Source |
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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