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title: Let her be shut up in my great tower, with her nurse and those who b… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 185

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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.’

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

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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.

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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:pg540:11:185
# text = 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.’
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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