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title: But the old witch cried out, ‘Take care and keep the curtains drawn;… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 95

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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.’

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:10:95
# text = 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.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
33	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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