More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 105
The only cure for a fool is a good wife to look after him, and that thou 'st got, so gode'en to thee!"
Who acts: only cure, thou · What happens: be, look, get · To what, where: good wife
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only cure, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cure | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cure | amod |
| 3 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fool | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cure | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wife | acl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 thou | nsubj |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 got | nsubj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 thou | punct |
| 20 | st | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gode'en | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 gode'en | advmod |
| 24 | gode'en | gode'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 gode'en | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the only cure for a fool | a good wife and gode'en to thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | after M'appen | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | past | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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