More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 4

But she could tell you what your sickness was, and how to cure it with herbs, and she could mix rare possets that would drive the pain out of you in a twinkling; and she could advise you what to do if your cows were ill, or if you'd got into trouble, and tell the maids whether their sweethearts were likely to be faithful.

Who acts: woman, rare possets, you, cows, sweethearts · What happens: tell, cure, mix, drive, advise, do · To what, where: you, sickness, rare possets, pain, twinkling, trouble · 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 (woman, rare possets, you, cows), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sickness	nmod:poss
8	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cure	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cure	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 cure	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cure	mark
14	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cure	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 herbs	case
17	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cure	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mix	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mix	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mix	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 mix	aux
22	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
23	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 possets	amod
24	possets	posset	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mix	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 drive	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 drive	aux
27	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 possets	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pain	det
29	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drive	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 you	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 drive	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 twinkling	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 twinkling	det
35	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drive	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 advise	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 advise	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 advise	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 advise	aux
40	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 advise	obj
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 do	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 advise	xcomp
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 ill	mark
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 cows	nmod:poss
47	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 ill	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 ill	cop
49	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 do	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 got	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 got	cc
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 got	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 got	nsubj
54	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 got	aux
55	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 ill	conj
56	into	into	ADP	_	57 trouble	case
57	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 got	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 tell	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 tell	cc
60	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 advise	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 maids	det
62	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 tell	obj
63	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	67 likely	mark
64	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 sweethearts	nmod:poss
65	sweethearts	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 likely	nsubj
66	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 likely	cop
67	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 tell	ccomp
68	to	to	PART	_	70 faithful	mark
69	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 faithful	cop
70	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 likely	xcomp
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	woman		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	cure	to-infinitive	woman not said here	sickness			with herbs	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source
3	mix	could	woman	rare possets				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent posset=Patient
4	drive	would	rare possets	the pain		a twinkling	out you	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent pain=Theme out you=Destination in twinkling=Initial_Location
5	advise speech: other	could	woman	you				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	your cows				ill property	tree rules
8	get a condition, not said to happen	would	you			trouble		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination
9	tell speech: assert	infinitive	woman not said here		the maids			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient
10	is	past	cows's sweethearts				likely property	tree rules
11	is	to-infinitive	cows's sweethearts not said here				faithful property	tree rules

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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