Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 23
"Only Little Red-Cap, bringing you some meat and wine; please open the door," answered the Wolf. "
Who acts: Little Red, Wolf · What happens: bring, open, answer · To what, where: meat, you, door · 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 (Little Red, Wolf), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Red | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Little | advmod |
| 3 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Red | amod |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 open | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cap | punct |
| 6 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Red | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bringing | punct |
| 8 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Red | acl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bringing | obj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 meat | det |
| 11 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bringing | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wine | cc |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meat | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 Red | punct |
| 15 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 16 open | discourse |
| 16 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 open | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 open | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Wolf | det |
| 23 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 open | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | gerund | Little Red and Cap not said here | some meat and wine | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | open in a quote | infinitive | Little Red and Cap | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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