Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 16
Presently he came up again to Little Red-Cap, and said, "Just look at the beautiful flowers which grow around you; why do you not look about you?
Who acts: Wolf, beautiful flowers, you · What happens: come up, say, look, grow, not look · To what, where: Little Red Cap · 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, beautiful flowers, you), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Cap | case |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Cap | amod |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Cap | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cap | punct |
| 10 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 16 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flowers | amod |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 grow | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 look | punct |
| 27 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 look | advmod |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 look | aux |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 look | nsubj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 look | advmod |
| 31 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 32 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 look | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Wolf | Little Red Cap | again | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cap=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | at the beautiful flowers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | present | the beautiful flowers | around you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around you=Location | ||||
| 5 | not look in a quote | present · do-support | you | about you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about you=Theme |
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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