Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 48

But they kept quite quiet, and did not open the door; so the Wolf, after looking several times round the house, at last jumped on the roof, thinking to wait till Red-Cap went home in the evening, and then to creep after her and eat her in the darkness.

Who acts: Red, Wolf · What happens: keep, not open, look, jump, think, wait · To what, where: door, last, cap, darkness

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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 kept	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 quiet	advmod
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 open	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 open	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 open	advmod
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 looking	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wolf	det
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 looking	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 looking	mark
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kept	advcl
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 times	amod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	obl:unmarked
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 jumped	punct
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 jumped	obl
28	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 jumped	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thinking	punct
33	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 jumped	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wait	mark
35	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thinking	xcomp
36	till	till	ADP	_	39 Cap	case
37	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Cap	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Red	punct
39	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 wait	obl
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thinking	conj
41	home	home	ADV	_	40 went	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 evening	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 evening	det
44	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 creep	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 creep	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 creep	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 creep	mark
49	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
50	after	after	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 creep	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 eat	cc
53	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	49 creep	conj
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 eat	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 darkness	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 darkness	det
57	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 eat	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Red				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not open	past · do-support	Red not said here	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	look	gerund	the Wolf			time	round the house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round house=Theme
4	jump	past	Red not said here		last		on the roof	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
5	think speech: other	gerund	Red not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	wait	to-infinitive	Red not said here			till Red Cap		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past	Red not said here			evening	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	creep	to-infinitive				after cap; then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	eat	infinitive		cap	the darkness			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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