The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 53

‘Take care not to let any of the neighbours hear of it, Denis,’ said Barbaik.

Who acts: any, Barbaik · What happens: take, not let, hear, say · To what, where: care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (any, Barbaik), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 hear	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 neighbours	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 neighbours	det
10	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 any	nmod
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Denis	punct
15	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		care	Denis obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	not let	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	hear	present	any		of care	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	Barbaik			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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