The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 74

‘Take care!’ cried the young ladies, and they extinguished it.

Who acts: ladies · What happens: take, cry, extinguish · To what, where: care, young ladies

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ladies	amod
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 extinguished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 extinguished	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 extinguished	nsubj
13	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 extinguished	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	infinitive		care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		the young ladies	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic
3	extinguish	past	ladies = lady	care	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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