Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 15
‘A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,’ replied Little Red-Cap.
Who acts: house, nut trees, you · What happens: stand, be, know, reply · To what, where: good quarter, three large oak trees, house, Little Red Cap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (house, nut trees, you), 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 quarter | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 quarter | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quarter | amod |
| 4 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 league | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 league | det |
| 7 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quarter | nmod |
| 8 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 quarter | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 farther | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stands | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | nsubj |
| 16 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 trees | nummod |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trees | amod |
| 21 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trees | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 oak | punct |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stands | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 below | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trees | det |
| 26 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trees | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 nut | punct |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 below | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 below | cop |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 below | advmod |
| 31 | below | below | ADV | _ | 16 stands | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 know | nsubj |
| 34 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 36 know | advmod |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 know | aux |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 replied | ccomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 know | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 replied | punct |
| 40 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stands | parataxis |
| 41 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Cap | amod |
| 42 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Cap | flat |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Cap | punct |
| 44 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 replied | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | grandmother's house | a good quarter of a league | the three large oak trees | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | the nut trees | below property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | must | you | house | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Little Red Cap | 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: «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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