Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child.

Who acts: dear little girl, everyone, girl · What happens: be, love, look, not give · To what, where: dear little girl, nothing, child

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear little girl, everyone, girl), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 was	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 loved	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 loved	aux:pass
13	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 girl	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 everyone	case
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 loved	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 everyone	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nothing	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 nothing	cc
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 all	amod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 nothing	det
25	by	by	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 all	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 was	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 was	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 nothing	cop
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 was	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 given	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 given	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 given	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 given	advmod
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 given	aux
38	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 nothing	advcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 child	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 child	det
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 given	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a dear little girl			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love	past · passive	everyone	a dear little girl				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
3	look	past					at girl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
4	is a	past		nothing				tree rules
5	not give	would · perfect	girl		the child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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