Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 38

"All the better to eat you with;" and hardly were the words spoken when the Wolf made a jump out of bed, and swallowed up poor Little Red-Cap also.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: eat, be, speak, make, swallow up · To what, where: you, words, jump, bed · 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), 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 better	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 better	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 better	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 better	csubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	6 eat	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 words	cc
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 words	advmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 words	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	conj
16	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 words	acl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 made	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Wolf	det
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoken	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 jump	det
22	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 bed	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 bed	case
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 jump	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swallowed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swallowed	cc
28	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 better	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 swallowed	compound:prt
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Cap	amod
31	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Cap	amod
32	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Cap	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Cap	punct
34	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 swallowed	parataxis
35	also	also	ADV	_	28 swallowed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	to-infinitive		you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	is a	past		the words		hardly property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	participle		the words not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	the Wolf	a jump	bed		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product
5	swallow up	participle					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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