Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 18

So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red-Cap, and then he said: ‘See, Little Red-Cap, how pretty the flowers are about here--why do you not look round?

Who acts: wolf, flowers, you · What happens: walk, say, see, be, not look round · To what, where: Little Red · 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 (wolf, flowers, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Red	case
12	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Red	amod
13	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Cap	punct
15	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Red	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 said	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 See	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 See	punct
23	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Red	punct
25	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Red	amod
26	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 See	obj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Cap	punct
28	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Red	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 here	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 pretty	advmod
31	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	36 here	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 flowers	det
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 here	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 here	cop
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 here	case
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 See	advmod
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 look	punct
38	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	42 look	advmod
39	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 look	aux
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 look	nsubj
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 look	advmod
42	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 See	conj
43	round	round	ADV	_	42 look	advmod
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	wolf		time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	wolf		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	infinitive		Little Red and Cap			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
4	is	present	the flowers			here, pretty property	tree rules
5	not look round	present · do-support	you			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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