The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 95

But the old witch cried out, ‘Take care and keep the curtains drawn; don’t let the light get into the Queen’s eyes; she must be kept perfectly quiet.’

Who acts: old witch, curtains · What happens: cry out, take, keep, draw, not let, get · To what, where: care, curtains, light, eyes, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, curtains), 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	_	5 cried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 cried	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Take	punct
9	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Take	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Take	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 curtains	det
14	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 keep	obj
15	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 keep	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
17	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 let	advmod
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 light	det
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
22	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 let	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Queen	det
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 eyes	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Queen	case
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 get	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 kept	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kept	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kept	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 kept	aux:pass
32	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cried	parataxis
33	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	34 quiet	advmod
34	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 kept	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	the old witch				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	infinitive	the old witch not said here	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	the old witch not said here	the curtains			tree rules
4	draw	participle	the curtains not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not let	infinitive · do-support	the old witch not said here	the light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
6	get	present	the old witch not said here		the Queen's eyes		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination
7	keep	must · passive		Queen		quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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