Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 20

But when she had once begun she did not know how to leave off, and kept going deeper and deeper amongst the trees looking for some still more beautiful flower.

Who acts: cap, trees · What happens: begin, not know, leave off, keep, go, look · To what, where: trees · 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 (cap, trees), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 begun	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 begun	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 begun	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begun	aux
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 begun	advmod
6	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 know	advcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 leave	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 leave	mark
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 leave	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	conj
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 going	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 deeper	cc
21	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 deeper	conj
22	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	24 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 going	obl
25	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 trees	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	31 flower	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 flower	det
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 beautiful	advmod
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 flower	amod
31	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	cap		once property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not know	past · do-support	cap			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	leave off	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	past	cap not said here			tree rules
5	go	gerund	cap not said here	the trees	deep property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst tree=Location
6	look	gerund	the trees not said here		for some beautiful flower	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for flower=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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