The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 36

Of course the cunning Corva will do her best to dissuade you from taking the foal, and will tell you that it is both idle and sickly; but do not believe her, and stick to your point.’

Who acts: Corva, cunning, your · What happens: do, dissuade, take, tell, be, not believe · To what, where: best, you, foal, Corva · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corva, cunning, your), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 cunning	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cunning	det
4	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
5	Corva	Corva	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 best	nmod:poss
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 do	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dissuade	mark
11	dissuade	dissuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 best	csubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 dissuade	obj
13	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 taking	mark
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dissuade	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foal	det
16	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 do	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 idle	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 idle	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 idle	cop
25	both	both	CCONJ	_	26 idle	cc:preconj
26	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tell	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sickly	cc
28	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 idle	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 believe	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 believe	cc
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 believe	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 believe	advmod
33	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 do	parataxis
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 believe	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stick	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stick	cc
37	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 believe	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 point	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 point	nmod:poss
40	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stick	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	future	Corva	Corva's best		of the cunning	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	dissuade	to-infinitive			you		vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary
3	take	gerund			the foal		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument foal=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	future			you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	present	cunning			idle property	tree rules
6	be		cunning not said here				tree rules
7	not believe	present · do-support		Corva			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
8	stick	infinitive				to your point	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to point=Co-Patient
9	point		your				nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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