Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 2

Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called ‘Little Red-Cap.’

Who acts: girl, red velvet · What happens: give, suit, not wear, call · To what, where: little cap, child, girl, anything · 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 (girl, red velvet), 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	SCONJ	_	3 gave	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cap	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cap	amod
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 velvet	case
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 velvet	amod
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cap	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suited	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 suited	nsubj
13	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 velvet	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 suited	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 wear	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 wear	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wear	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wear	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 wear	advmod
21	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 suited	advcl
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 wear	obj
23	else	else	ADV	_	22 anything	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 called	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 called	aux:pass
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 called	advmod
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Red	punct
31	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Red	amod
32	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Cap	punct
34	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Red	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 Red	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 Red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	girl	a little cap of red velvet	child		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cap=Theme
2	suit	past	red velvet	girl			tree rules
3	not wear	would	girl	anything		well property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
4	call	past · passive		girl		always property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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