Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 20
Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: ‘Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too.
Who acts: Little Red Cap, cap, sunbeams, pretty flowers, I, that · What happens: raise, see, dance, grow, think, take · To what, where: eyes, sunbeams, trees, grandmother, 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 (Little Red Cap, cap, sunbeams, pretty flowers), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cap | amod |
| 2 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cap | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Red | punct |
| 4 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | nsubj |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 raised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sunbeams | det |
| 14 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sunbeams | acl |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 dancing | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 here | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dancing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 growing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 growing | cc |
| 24 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flowers | amod |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 growing | nsubj |
| 26 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 raised | advcl |
| 27 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 growing | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | parataxis |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 33 | Suppose | suppose | INTJ | _ | 35 take | discourse |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 nosegay | det |
| 38 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 nosegay | amod |
| 39 | nosegay | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 please | punct |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 please | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 please | aux |
| 43 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 raised | conj |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 please | obj |
| 45 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 please | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Little Red Cap | cap's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | cap | the sunbeams | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunbeam=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | the sunbeams not said here | the trees; here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | pretty flowers | everywhere property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | cap | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | present | I | grandmother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument grandmother=Theme nosegay=Destination | ||||
| 7 | please | would | that | cap | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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