Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 16

The wolf thought to himself: ‘What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful--she will be better to eat than the old woman.

Who acts: wolf, mouthful · What happens: think, be, eat · To what, where: wolf

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 (wolf, mouthful), 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 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thought	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 creature	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 creature	punct
8	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	12 creature	det
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 creature	det
10	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 creature	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mouthful	det
16	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mouthful	amod
17	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mouthful	amod
18	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 what	nsubj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 better	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 better	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 better	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 better	cop
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 creature	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 better	advcl
26	than	than	ADP	_	29 woman	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the wolf	wolf		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	mouthful		good property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	mouthful not said here		than the old woman	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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