Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 4

The grandmother lived far away in the wood, a long walk from the village, and as Little Red-Cap came among the trees she met a Wolf; but she did not know what a wicked animal it was, and so she was not at all frightened. "

Who acts: grandmother, wicked animal · What happens: live, come, meet, not know, be · To what, where: wood, trees, Wolf · 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 (grandmother, wicked animal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grandmother	det
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 walk	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 walk	amod
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 village	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walk	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 Red	case
19	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Red	amod
20	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Cap	punct
22	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Red	conj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
24	among	among	ADP	_	26 trees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 met	nsubj
28	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 trees	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Wolf	det
30	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 met	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 know	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lived	parataxis
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 know	ccomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 animal	det
39	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 animal	amod
40	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 what	nsubj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 what	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 what	cop
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 frightened	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 frightened	cc
45	so	so	ADV	_	50 all	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 all	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 all	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 all	advmod
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 frightened	det
51	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 frightened	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the grandmother		the wood and a long walk from the village	away property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
2	come	past	the grandmother not said here		the trees	as Little Red and Cap	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location
3	meet	past	grandmother	a Wolf			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent
4	not know	past · do-support	grandmother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	a wicked animal				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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