Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 27
All this time Red-Cap was gathering flowers; and when she had picked as many as she could carry, she thought of her grandmother, and hurried to the cottage.
Who acts: Red, cap · What happens: gather, pick, carry, think, hurry · To what, where: flowers, cap, cottage
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 (Red, cap), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathering | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gathering | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cap | punct |
| 6 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Red | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathering | aux |
| 8 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathering | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 picked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 picked | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 picked | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 picked | aux |
| 15 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gathering | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 picked | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 carry | aux |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 many | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 picked | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 grandmother | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurried | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hurried | cc |
| 30 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 thought | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 cottage | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cottage | det |
| 33 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hurried | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · progressive | Red and Cap | flowers | time | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | pick | past · perfect · passive | cap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary many=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | could | cap | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | cap | of cap's grandmother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hurry | participle | cap not said here | the cottage | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination |
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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