Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 2
One day Red-Cap's mother said to her, "Come, Red-Cap, here is a nice piece of meat, and a bottle of wine: take these to your grandmother; she is weak and ailing, and they will do her good.
Who acts: mother, Red · What happens: say, come, be, take, ail, do · To what, where: cap, Red, nice piece, these, grandmother, mother · 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 (mother, Red), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cap | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cap | punct |
| 5 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Cap | case |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 13 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 piece | csubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Red | punct |
| 15 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Come | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cap | punct |
| 17 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Red | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Come | parataxis |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 piece | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 22 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 piece | amod |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 meat | case |
| 25 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bottle | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bottle | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bottle | det |
| 29 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wine | case |
| 31 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bottle | nmod |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 34 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 grandmother | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 weak | punct |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 weak | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 weak | cop |
| 41 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ailing | cc |
| 43 | ailing | ail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 weak | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 do | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 do | cc |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 do | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 do | aux |
| 48 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 weak | conj |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 do | obj |
| 50 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 do | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Red Cap's mother | cap | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | Red and Cap | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location red=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a nice piece | of meat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | these | your grandmother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to grandmother=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | mother | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ail in a quote | gerund | mother not said here | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | future | Red | mother | tree rules |
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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