The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 185

Let her be shut up in my great tower, with her nurse and those who brought her here; and as for them, I will have their heads cut off.’

Who acts: you, fish, prisoners, heads · What happens: let up, shut up, bring, have, cut off · To what, where: fish, great tower, heads

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fish, prisoners, heads), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shut	aux:pass
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Let	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	1 Let	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 tower	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tower	nmod:poss
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tower	amod
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nurse	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 nurse	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 nurse	nmod:poss
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 those	cc
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 nurse	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 brought	nsubj
17	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 those	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 brought	obj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 brought	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	24 them	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 them	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 have	xcomp
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 cut	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let up	imperative	you not said here	fish		my great tower	with fish's nurse those	tree rules
2	shut up	infinitive · passive	fish not said here					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»
3	bring	past			fish	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	have	future	prisoners = prisoner	prisoners's heads				tree rules
5	cut off	participle	prisoners's heads not said here					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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