Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 15

The Wolf was thinking to himself, "She is a nice tender thing, and will taste better than the old woman; I must act cleverly, that I may make a meal of both."

Who acts: Wolf, grandmother · What happens: think, be, taste, act, make · To what, where: Wolf, nice tender thing, meal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, grandmother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thinking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
9	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
13	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	compound
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taste	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taste	cc
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 taste	aux
18	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	parataxis
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 taste	xcomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 woman	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 act	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 act	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 act	aux
27	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 taste	parataxis
28	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	27 act	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 make	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 make	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 make	aux
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 act	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 meal	det
35	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 both	case
37	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	35 meal	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	the Wolf		Wolf		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	grandmother	a nice tender thing			tree rules
3	taste in a quote	future				good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	act in a quote	must	the Wolf = wolf			cleverly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make in a quote	may	the Wolf = wolf	a meal of both			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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