Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 13

‘Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.’

Who acts: yesterday, poor sick grandmother · What happens: be, make · To what, where: baking day, grandmother

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 (yesterday, poor sick grandmother), 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	_	2 Cake	punct
2	Cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wine	cc
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cake	conj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
6	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 day	cop
8	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 baking	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cake	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandmother	amod
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandmother	amod
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 day	parataxis
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 have	obj
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 something	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 have	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 make	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Cake	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Cake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	yesterday	baking day		tree rules
2	is	present	poor sick grandmother		have property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive		grandmother	strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

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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